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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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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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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 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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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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Labor market frictions and moving costs of the employed and unemployed
Ransom, Tyler - 2019
This paper examines the role of labor market frictions and moving costs in explaining the migration behavior of US workers by employment status. Using data on low-skilled workers from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), I estimate a dynamic model of individual labor supply and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978361
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Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kesternich, Iris; Müller, Gerrit - 2019
We investigate how negatively reciprocal traits of unemployed individuals interact with "sticks" policies imposing constraints on individual job search effort in the context of the German welfare system. For this we merge survey data of long-term unemployed individuals, containing indicators of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123073
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Does job search assistance reduce unemployment? : experimental evidence on displacement effects and mechanisms
Cheung, Maria; Egebark, Johan; Forslund, Anders; Laun, Lisa - 2019
This paper uses a large-scale two-level randomized experiment to study direct and displacement effects of job search assistance. Our findings show that the assistance reduces unemployment among the treated, but also creates substantial displacement leading to higher unemployment for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123230
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The valuation of changes in commuting distances : an analysis using georeferenced data
Dauth, Wolfgang; Haller, Peter - 2016
We analyze the causal effect of commuting on wages, using a large sample of German job changers. Information on their home and workplace addresses in combination with road navigation software allows us to calculate exact door-to-door commuting distances with an unprecedented degree of precision....
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