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We examine the pattern and costs of worker displacement in one of the more reform-oriented transition countries, Estonia, as the transition process develops. Using Labour Force Survey data covering the period 1989-1999, we show that after the initial shock, displacement rates in Estonia have...
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whether wage arrears, delayed payments of wages, induce bonding effects. We find that workers' separation rates decrease …. After workers are repaid nominal wages, but have suffered real wage losses due to unexpectedly high inflation, we observe …
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adjustment in the Russian transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages. More than half the workforce is experiencing … firm not paying wages in full or on time if the outside labor market is sufficiently dynamic. …
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various points in the pay distribution across gender, education, region and industry are influenced by a failure to allow for …
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-kind benefits and the propensity to have an informal employment relationship in addition to monthly earnings, hourly wages …
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One of the most important factors that determine individuals' quality of life and wellbeing is their position in the labor market and the type of jobs that they hold. When workers are rationed out of the formal segment of the labor market against their will, i.e., the labor market is segmented,...
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This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional transformations. Based...
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This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...
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This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...
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The paper presents the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), which is one of the most widely used household and labor force surveys in Eastern Europe. It is based on a statistically representative sample of the Ukrainian population aged between 15 and 72 years, comprising about 4,000...
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