The paper investigates labor reallocation across main economic sectors between 1989 and 2007 in the CEE2 countries, now all members of the EU, using a methodology presented in Jackman and Pauna (1997). Defining a series of indices aimed at capturing the speed, magnitude and efficiency of...

This paper analyzes the effects of trade and outsourcing on the transition probabilities of employment between sectors, using a dynamic multinomial logit framework with fixed effects. The data contain individual Austrian male workers over the period 1988-2001. Our results strongly support the...

Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labor has induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs. Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and worker flows, we estimate the elasticity of individual pay, amongst a rich set...

Average wages are considerably lower in agriculture than in the other sectors. We document this fact for thirteen countries ranging from rich (Canada, U.S.) to poor (India, Indonesia). We develop a measure of human capital that accounts for the selection of workers with different unobserved...

Using national representative samples from population census and mini-census of China, this paper documents important employment dynamics in China from 1990 to 2015. The share of routine manual jobs decreased significant from 57% to 32%; both the share of routine cognitive jobs and the share of...

This paper explores a simple model of labor market adjustment where inter-sectoral transfer in response to terms of trade shocks involves both sector-specific skill acquisition and workplace disruption. Externalities arise because the marginal migrant does not consider the congestion costs...

This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization episodes on movements of labor across sectors. The aim is to assess empirically whether increased trade openness leads to increased structural change, and if so to what extent. Results for a set of 25 liberalization episodes suggest weakly...