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Re-Employment Probabilities and Wage Offer Function for Russian Labor Market
Smirnova, Natalia V. - 2004
This research addresses labor market transformation in Russia. It elaborates on the theory of job search and focuses on …; and (2) estimation of wage offer distribution for the transforming labor market. We use data from Phase II of the Russia … offers. The binomial logit-OLS estimation method with sample selection bias correction on pooled data from Rounds 5-9 of RLMS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014031127
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Infrequent Bankruptcy, Asymmetric Information, and Excess Labor in the Russian Economy
Brown, J. David - 1999
Even experienced, profit-maximizing managers in Russia may conduct less restructuring than otherwise, since the economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206647
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Intra-household risk sharing and job search over the business cycle
Wang, Haomin - 2018
This paper studies the extent to which working couples can insure one another against cyclical fluctuations in the labor market and examines the implications of joint household decision-making for cyclical fluctuations in the unemployment rate. For this purpose, I provide a dynamic life-cycle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011900736
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Equilibrium Wage Arrears: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Institutional Lock-In
Earle, John S.; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - 2000
payment equilibrium." Our econometric analysis of linked employer-employee data for Russia supports the model's contention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262404
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Equilibrium wage arrears : a theoretical and empirical analysis of institutional lock-in
Earle, John S.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2000
payment equilibrium." Our econometric analysis of linked employer-employee data for Russia supports the model's contention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339102
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Switching models with self-selection : self-employment in Hungary
Gang, Ira N.; Co, Catherine Yap; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999
transition from socialism to greater market orientation. We adopt a (full information) MLE methodology in addition to Heckman …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577307
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Wages and employment in a random social network with arbitrary degree distribution
Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2006
Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348716
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How many educated workers for your economy? : European targets, optimal public spending, and labor market impact
Lebon, Isabelle; Rebière, Thérèse - 2015
This paper studies optimal taxation schemes for education in a search-matching model where the labor market is divided between a high-skill and a low-skill sector. Two public policy targets - maximizing the global employment level and optimizing the social surplus - are studied according to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487496
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Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle
Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016
Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search model – even if wages are only occasionally renegotiated. We argue that one source of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452214
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Informal versus formal search : which yields a better pay?
Tumen, Semih - 2015 - Forthcoming in: International Journal of Economic Theory
Estimates on the effect of job contact method - i.e., informal versus formal search - on wage offers vary considerably across studies, with some of them finding a positive correlation between getting help from informal connections and obtaining high-paying jobs, while others finding a negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407932