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Women's employment, children and transition : an empirical analysis on Poland
Bardasi, Elena (contributor); Monfardini, Chiara (contributor) - 2004
The effect of transition from centrally planned to market economies on female employment is unclear a-priori. Many …’s employment. A frequently mentioned potential explanation of the lower female participation during the transition period is … having two earners during the turbulent transition period. The aim of this paper is to give an empirical assessment on how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002613459
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Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2001
, but increased slightly during the transition, while job destruction rose markedly. Heterogeneity in firm employment change … during the socialist period, while they have made a strong positive contribution during the transition. Privatization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262559
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The gender pay gap in the transition from communism : some empirical evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2001
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400808
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Limitations on de-collectivisation in central European agriculture
Bezemer, Dirk Johan - 2000
Following formal privatisation of farm land and assets in CentralEurope, the change in agriculturalproduction structures has been both more limited and different thanwas initially expected. In this paper, thetheoretical reasons underlying those expectations are reviewed. Analternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303300
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Equilibrium wage arrears : a theoretical and empirical analysis of institutional lock-in
Earle, John S.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2000
We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339102
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Power utility re-regulation in East European and CIS transformation countries (1990-1999) : an institutional interpretation
Hirschhausen, Christian R. von; Opitz, Petra - 2001
This paper analyzes the process of power utility re-regulation in Eastern Europe and the CIS during the decade of systemic transformation (1990-1999); in particular, it explores reasons why early attempts to introduce competition-oriented reform models have not succeeded. We discuss advantages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434085
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Gross job flows in Russian industry before and after reforms : has destruction become more creative?
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2001
, but increased slightly during the transition, while job destruction rose markedly. Heterogeneity in firm employment change … during the socialist period, while they have made a strong positive contribution during the transition. Privatization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403410
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The reallocation of workers and jobs in Russian industry : new evidence on measures and determinants
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412846
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Russians' "impressionable years" : life experience during the exit from communism and Putin-era beliefs
Pyle, William - 2020
, from the first wave of the Life in Transition Survey, I show that a range of attitudes - including diminished support for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240790
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Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity growth? This paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415087