Changes in women's relative wages and employment are analyzed, using social security data from Slovenia (1987-1992) and a retrospective labor force survey in Estonia (1989-1994). Estonia adopted liberal labor market policies. Slovenia took an interventionist approach. Nevertheless, relative...

Gegenstand der Untersuchung ist der Transformationsprozess des Arbeitsmarkts in Estland. Im Gegensatz zu anderen Transformationsstaaten entschied sich Estland für eine radikale Liberalisierung der Märkte. Im Untersuchungszeitraum (1989-1995) fand eine umfassende Neuallokation auf dem...

This study examines long-term effects of a minimum wage increase using an innovative identification strategy based on categorising workers according to their predicted marginal revenue products. It finds that the increase had a large and persistent disemployment effects on low-paid workers and...

This paper studies worker and job flows at the establishment and aggregate levels. The paper is built around a set of facts concerning the variability of unemployment and vacancies in the aggregate, the distribution of net employment growth and the comovement of hours and employment growth at...