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The unemployment-growth relationship in transition countries
Gabrisch, Hubert; Buscher, Herbert S. - 2005
institutional shocks from transition to a market economy, or is it the result of high labour market rigidities, or rather a syndrome … hypothesis holds 15 years after transition has started, we analyze the unemploymentgrowth dynamics in the eight new member … results suggest to declare the transition of labour markets as completed; unemployment responds to output and not to a …
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Active Labor Market Policies in Russia: Regional Interpretation Determines Effectiveness?
Akhmedov, Akhmed; Denisova, Irina; Kartseva, Marina - Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), New … - 2003
Persistently sizeable unemployment attracts interest to active labor market policy as an instrument to reduce unemployment. Moreover, sustainable economic growth requires an effective re-training system, a part of which is usually associated with state employment offices’ programs. Little is...
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Staying Longer on Unemployment Register in Russia: Lack of Education, Bad Luck or Something Else?
Denisova, Irina - Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), New … - 2001
Using individual-level data on registered unemployed collected by the Federal Employment Service in Voronezh province of Russia (1996-2000), we test some basic hypotheses on the influence of individual attributes (gender and education, in particular), working history, the specifics of the...
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China: The Iron Rice-Bowl is Broken
Lemoine, Françoise - In: La Lettre du CEPII (2001) 202
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Migration and adjustment to shocks in transition economies
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2001
Does migration serve as an effective channel of regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks in transition economies? If … flows on the other. Yet, the evidence from transition economies indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter … wages on net migration flows is economically insignificant and the overall level of migration has fallen during transition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301172
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Nonstandard forms and measures of employment and unemployment in transition : a comparative study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
Brown, J. David (contributor) - 2006
Studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied on standard, publicly available employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278938
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Temporary labour migration and welfare at the new European fringe : a comparison of five Eastern European countries
M. Danzer, Alexander; Dietz, Barbara - 2009
This paper investigates patterns and determinants of temporary labour migration in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine after EU enlargement in 2004. Migration incidence, destination choices and migration determinants differ between poorer and better-off countries. Although broadly in...
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Migration and adjustment to shocks in transition economies
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2001
Does migration serve as an effective channel of regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks in transition economies? If … flows on the other. Yet, the evidence from transition economies indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter … wages on net migration flows is economically insignificant and the overall level of migration has fallen during transition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518128
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Worker flows and labour market adjustment during the Great Recession : evidence from a large shock
Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2015
This paper analyzes how the labor market adjusts to the Great Recession. To this aim, we use the data for Latvia, a country that has experienced one of the most severe recessions in Europe and a subsequent remarkable recovery. Employing longitudinal EU SILC data and a panel data set constructed...
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The labor market in Azerbaijan
Rahmanov, Ramiz; Qasimov, Asif; Tahirova, Gulzar - 2016
This paper analyzes the development of the labor market in Azerbaijan from the early 1990s until the early 2010s. The analysis shows that the labor market has a range of positive characteristics such as high labor force participation and employment, low youth and female unemployment,...
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