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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; Earle, John S.; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006

to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of employment and unemployment. Our calculations show … alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. …

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Aggregate Demand, Idle Time, and Unemployment

Michaillat, Pascal; Saez, Emmanuel - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014

This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman … flexible to completely rigid. With some price rigidity, aggregate demand influences unemployment through a simple mechanism … thus increases labor demand, which in turn reduces unemployment. We use the comparative-statistics predictions of the model …

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The Impact of Affirmative Action on the Employment of Minorities and Women over Three Decades: 1973-2003

Kurtulus, Fidan Ana - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2015

What role has affirmative action played in the growth of minority and female employment in U.S. firms? This paper analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore mandated to implement affirmative action, and at...

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The Ups and Downs in Women's Employment: Shifting Composition or Behavior from 1970 to 2010?

Smith, Kristin E. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014

This paper tracks factors contributing to the ups and downs in women’s employment from 1970 to 2010 using regression decompositions focusing on whether changes are due to shifts in the means (composition of women) or due to shifts in coefficients (inclinations of women to work for pay)....

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Do Temporary Jobs Help Low-Skilled Workers? Surprising Data from Detroit

Autor, David H.; Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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What Do We Know about Contracting Out in the United States? Evidence from Household and Establishment Surveys

Dey, Matthew; Houseman, Susan; Polivka, Anne - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009

A variety of evidence points to significant growth in domestic contracting out over the last two decades, yet the phenomenon is not well documented. In this paper, we pull together data from various sources to shed light on the extent of and trends in domestic outsourcing, the occupations in...

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The Role of Temporary Help Employment in Tight Labor Markets

Houseman, Susan N.; Kalleberg, Arne L.; Erickcek, George A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2001

thereby may have contributed to the stagnant wage growth and low unemployment observed in the 1990s. …

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The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants

Earle, John S.; Brown, J. David - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002

Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues-including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004

We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving universe of manufacturing firms inherited from the Soviet Union. Employment growth displays substantial increase in heterogeneity during this transition period, with a corresponding...

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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine....

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