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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 growth? This paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415087
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The gender pay gap in the transition from communism : some empirical evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2001
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400808
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Equilibrium wage arrears : a theoretical and empirical analysis of institutional lock-in
Earle, John S.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2000
We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339102
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When opportunity knocks: confronting theory and empirics about dynamics of gender wage inequality
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas - 2021
structural shocks in the labor markets, using several decades of individual data for a wide selection of transition countries. We … find that for cohorts who entered the labor market after the onset of transition. Labor market shocks lead to significant … market during the transition. By contrast, we fail to find any significant relation for cohorts already active in the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415093
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When the opportunity knocks : large structural shocks and gender wage gaps
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas - Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung - 2018
behavior of adjusted gender wage gaps in a wide selection of transition countries. We estimate comparable measures of adjusted … gender wage gaps for a comprehensive selection of transition countries over a period spanning nearly three decades. We … combine these estimates with measures of labor market reallocation in transition economies. We identify the episodes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964674
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Equilibrium wage arrears : a theoretical and empirical analysis of institutional lock-in
Earle, John S.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001528496
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Why do people still live in East Germany?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2000
In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to bring convergence, labor flows would respond,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001473833
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The gender pay gap in the transition from communism : some empirical evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2001
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001590113
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Worker flows, job flows and firm wage policies : an analysis of Slowenia
Haltiwanger, John C. (contributor);  … - 2002
Like many transition economies, Slovenia is undergoing profound changes in the workings of the labor market with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001701408
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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs : Socioeconomics or Culture?
Tauchmann, Harald - 2008
In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the collapse of the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By analyzing individual data, we find that East-Germany largely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214111