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Temporary labour migration and welfare at the new European fringe: a comparison of five Eastern European countries
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara - 2009
and Ukraine after EU enlargement in 2004. Migration incidence, destination choices and migration determinants differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269293
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Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822646
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Institutions, Markets and Men’s and Women’s Wage Inequality: Evidence from Ukraine
Ganguli, Ina; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Ukraine, the second largest country in the former Soviet bloc, is facing the challenge of rallying popular support for … micro data set for Ukraine - the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) - to determine the extent to which the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822663
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Can State Language Policies Distort Students' Demand for Higher Education?
Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper takes advantage of a recent policy experiment in Ukraine's secondary education system to study the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805629
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Is Privatization Working in Ukraine? New Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Data, 1989-2013
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015
long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large size and length of the time series in the … either minority or majority stakes, ownership structures that have largely disappeared since the early 2000s, as Ukraine has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307462
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Time-Varying Individual Risk Attitudes over the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany and Ukraine
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2015
We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants that are valid in different stages of economic development and in a different structural context,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345395
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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004
in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261809
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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine : A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004
Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the … school graduates for Ukraine using the distributions of Russian characteristics, returns to characteristics, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262067
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004
We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262088
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Agriculture: Transition Buffer or Black Hole? A Three-State Model of Employment Dynamics
Voicu, Alexandru - 2003
We analyze the effect of land reform legislation on labor market dynamics in the Romanian economy. We show that the agricultural sector, a source of precarious employment, has become an absorbing state for certain categories of workers who lost their jobs in the nonagricultural sector. A random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262229