Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the … rates of unemployment and the business cycle over the last decade. We develop the theoretical framework that predicts that … the individual perceptions of job insecurity depend on regional unemployment rates and on the within-group variance of …

This paper examines whether subjective expectations of unemployment are reliable indicators of the probability of … becoming unemployed, and investigates their association with wage growth. We find that workers’ fears of unemployment are … increased by their previous unemployment experience and by the unemployment experiences of a close friend, and are associated …

As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, five million Russian and Russian-speaking people repatriated to Russia …

fall back into unemployment. We estimate bivariate proportional hazard models for unemployment duration and for the … occupations. While a higher level of education protects women in particular from unemployment, having children hampers women …'s employment and initial wages after unemployment. There are lower gender gaps in the public sector and in high technology- firms …

unemployment odds at the extensive margin. These negative consequences on female labor market outcomes warrant further policy …

find evidence in favor of the Polish wage curve with an unemployment elasticity of -0.06. We also find that males in Poland … are significantly more responsive to local unemployment rates (-0.08) than their female counterparts (-0.04). Moreover, if … the lagged unemployment rate is used as an instrument for current unemployment rate, we find that the unemployment …

emphasis on their evolution over the business cycle. Blacks have substantially higher and more cyclical unemployment rates than … comparatively higher risk of job loss. In contrast, the Hispanic-white unemployment rate gap is comparatively small and is largely …

chronically ill child or pair; in case of women having a husband who previously experienced unemployment. In these cases the usual …