Studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied on standard, publicly available employment and … employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment of household production … alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …

In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared … the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they argue that black-white wage and employment gaps are smaller for … prejudice is quantitatively more important than skill differences to explain wage and employment gaps. In the final section of …

We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and … part-time work. Transitions from full-time to involuntary part-time employment dominate this dynamics, spiking up at …

unemployment risk alongside an additional risk of involuntary part-time employment. A calibration of the model consistent with U … unemployment. This finding relies critically on the much higher probability to return to full-time employment from part-time work …

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