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Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013

wages and rising wage dispersion over time …

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Doing well in reforming the labour market? : recent trends in job stability and wages in Germany ; conference paper

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Rothe, Thomas - 2013

and earnings for different groups of workers over time. Microeconometric models of job stability and wages are estimated … overall job stability but decreasing wages and rising wage dispersion over time, which is in line with wage moderation … duration and wages, like low skilled, formerly unemployed and temporary agency workers. Again, we find evidence of a rise in …

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The wage effects of schooling under socialism and in transition : evidence from Romania, 1950 - 2000

Andren, Daniela (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor); … - 2004

We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3-4% during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventional earnings regression rises steadily during the 1990s, reaching 8.5% by 2000. Our analysis finds little...

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Are Transition Economy Workers Underpaid?

Adamchik, Vera A. - 2010

We examine the extent to which workers in transition and developed market economies are able to obtain wages that fully … characteristics of the labor force than of the mechanisms for setting wages or of labor market policies …

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The Evolution of Regional Wage Differentials in a Transition Economy : Evidence from Poland

Adamchik, Vera A. - 2013

This paper uses micro data from the Labor Force Surveys to examine regional wage differentials and their dynamics in Poland over 1994-2007. We find that controlling for observed worker characteristics reduces regional wage disparity by 30-50 percent, but remaining wage differentials persist and...

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Ethnic Wage Gap and Political Break-Ups : Estonia During Political and Economic Transition

Leping, Kristjan-Olari - 2007

We analyse the ethnic wage gap in Estonia, a former Soviet republic and current EU member, which hosts a substantial Russian-speaking minority. The analysis covers a lengthy period from the final years of the Soviet Union until the first years of EU membership. We document the rise of a...

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The Gap that Survived the Transition : The Gender Wage Gap Over Three Decades in Estonia

Meriküll, Jaanika; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021

longer-term factors in it. The decline in the gap is related to the overall decline in wage inequality, minimum wages have …

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How do Workers Fare During Transition? Perceptions of Job Insecurity among Russian Workers, 1995-2004

Linz, Susan J.; Semykina, Anastasia - 2007

Labor market conditions deteriorated substantially in the1990s during Russia's transition from plan to market, generating pervasive and prolonged economic insecurity. Our objective is to document perceptions of job insecurity among Russian workers over the course of the transition period and...

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Economic Transformation and the Gender Earnings Gap in Urban China

Gustafsson, Björn; Shi, Li - 2014

The gender wage gap and its development in urban China is analysed utilising two large scale surveys covering 10 provinces for the years 1988 and 1995. The results indicate that from an international perspective, the gender wage gap in urban China appears to be relatively small. It is, however,...

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Informal Employment Relationships and Labor Market Segmentation in Transition Economies : Evidence from Ukraine

Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2021

Research on informal employment in transition countries has been very limited because of a lack of appropriate data. A new rich panel data set from Ukraine, the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), enables us to provide some empirical evidence on informal employment in Ukraine and...

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