Search Results - subject:"Job Reallocation"

The Changing Demand for Skills : Evidence from the Transition

Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - 2004

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...

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Gross Job Flows over the Past Two Business Cycles: Not all 'Recoveries' are Created Equal

Faberman, R. Jason - Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor - 2004

job reallocation in manufacturing is considerably lower than in the rest of the private sector. For instance, job … independent of growth in a particular period. As such, it simultaneously captures the persistent differences in industry job … reallocation while retaining industry differences in growth trends. I take the excess reallocation rate for the private sector …

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Wage Compression, Employment Restrictions and Unemployment; The Case of Mauritius

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

Governments often intervene in labor markets with the aim of reducing inequality and promoting employment. Such intervention often results in wage compression and restrictions on how firms use their workers. This paper investigates the impact of such interventions on the labor market conditions...

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … product and labor markets on excess job reallocation and on the productivity-enhancing effects of job flows. …

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

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Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002

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Individual Pay and Outside Options: Evidence from the Polish Labour Force Survey

Duffy, Fiona; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2001

unemployment (job shortages) and + 0.1 for local job reallocation (restructuring). Variations in local labour market conditions …

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Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2001

also increased significantly. Intra- and inter-sectoral job reallocation had no effect on aggregate labor productivity …

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Labor Supply, Informal Economy and Russian Transition

Bouev, Maxim - 2001

The literature on economics of transition has suggested a number of scenarios to explain unemployment and labour reallocation in Eastern Europe. However, it has recently been argued that these so-called Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) studies do not account for many stylized facts concerning...

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