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Tenures that Shook the World: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

We study worker turnover in a transition economy to investigate to what extent the length of time a worker has been employed by a firm shapes the turnover process. Using data from the Polish Labor Force Survey and The Russian Longitudinal Monitor Survey we compare the pattern of turnover with a...

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Wage Arrears and the Distribution of Earnings in Russia

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

The increase in wage inequality in Russia during its transition process has far exceeded the increase in wage dispersion observed in other European countries undergoing transition. Russia also has an extremely large incidence of wage arrears. We analyse to what extent wage arrears affect the...

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Wage Arrears and the Distribution of Earnings in Russia

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2002

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Tenures that shook the world: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2000

We study worker turnover to investigate to what extent the length of time a worker has been employed by a firm shapes the turnover process in a transition economy. Using survey data, we compare the pattern of turnover with a Western economy, Britain. We show that tenure-turnover rates are higher...

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Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; Asquisti, Alessandro - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 1999

characteristics contribute much toward the incidence of wage arrears. As with the incidence of unemployment however, there is evidence …

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Gradual restructuring and Structural Unemployment in Poland. A Legacy of Central Planning

Lehmann, Hartmut; Walsh, Patrick Paul - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 1999

evolution of unemployment within a two-sector model of endogenous restructuring. We find evidence across Polish regions for the … restructuring, reduced unemployment turnover and lowered the number of workers with out-dated human capital in the unemployment … unemployment turnover and increased the number of workers with out-dated human capital among the unemployed. We argue that the role …

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Wage Arrears and the Distribution of Earnings in Russia

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001

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New Jobs, Worklessness and Households in Poland

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 1996

across household types? Are low unemployment outflows caused by increased congestion from employed job seekers or by low …

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Grime and Punishment: Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; Acquisti, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

Using information from two complementary household survey data sets, we show that the dominant form of labor market adjustment in the Russian transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages. More than half the workforce is experiencing some form of disruption to their pay. Wage arrears...

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Labor Markets and Labor Market Institutions in Transition Economies

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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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