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Tenures that Shook the World : Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2021
flatter in Russia and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and … private sectors do not look very different. State and private sector firms in Poland offer the same wages to new recruits, but … new private sector jobs in Russia appear to offer wage premia relative to new state jobs. We argue that these observations …
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A New Regional Geography of Europe? The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements
Caroleo, Floro E. - 2007
This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholars interested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union member states. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatially asymmetric impact on labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777459
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Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Latin American Economies : An Empirical Approach
Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal - 2020
Identifying the determinants of intergenerational mobility is an important aim in the development literature. In this article, intergenerational transmission is examined for 6 neglected Latin American Economies (Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama and Puerto Rico). We use a multinomial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838497
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Labor Reallocation and Demographics
Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018
We explore data from all transition economies over nearly two decades, providing insights on the mechanisms behind labor force reallocation. We show that worker flows between jobs in different industries are rare relative to the demographic flows of youth entry and elderly exit. The same applies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930949
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The Cyclicality of Labor Market Flows : A Multiple-Shock Approach
Hairault, Jean-Olivier - 2014
In this paper, we aim to provide a comprehensive view of the unemployment dynamics generated by different structural shocks. We show that the relative contribution of the job finding and separation rates to the unemployment dynamics depends on a type of structural shocks. Identified using a sign...
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Beyond Job Lock : Impacts of Public Health Insurance on Occupational and Industrial Mobility
Farooq, Ammar - 2016
We examine whether greater Medicaid generosity encourages mobility towards riskier but better jobs in higher paid occupations and industries. We use Current Population Survey Data and exploit variation in Medicaid thresholds across states and over time through the 1990s and 2000s. We find that...
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Worker Flows and Labour Market Adjustment During the Great Recession : Evidence from a Large Shock
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2016
This paper analyzes how the labor market adjusts to the Great Recession. To this aim, we use the data for Latvia, a country that has experienced one of the most severe recessions in Europe and a subsequent remarkable recovery. Employing longitudinal EU SILC data and a panel data set constructed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001888
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Labor Reallocation Over the Business Cycle : New Evidence from Internal Migration
Saks, Raven E. - 2007
This paper establishes the cyclical properties of a novel measure of worker reallocation: long-distance migration rates within the US. This internal migration offers a bird's eye view of worker reallocation in the economy as long-distance migrants often change jobs or employment status, altering...
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Worker Beliefs About Outside Options
Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; rousssille, nina; … - 2022
Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside...
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The Role of Worker Flows in the Dynamics and Distribution of UK Unemployment
Elsby, Michael - 2011
Unemployment varies substantially over time and across subgroups of the labour market. Worker flows among labour market states act as key determinants of this. We examine how the structure of unemployment across groups and its cyclical movements across time are shaped by changes in labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123583