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The Great Recession and Labor Market Adjustment: Evidence from Latvia
How severe are costs to workers when the economy undergoes a large recession? In this paper, we try to provide an answer to this question using as an example Latvia, a new EU member state, which faced the most...
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Glaubenswelt und Lebenswelt
In dem Dorf an der Grenze zwischen der Schwäbischen Alb und dem Schwarzwald, in dem ich als Kind während des Zweiten Weltkriegs aufwuchs, bestanden strikte Grenzen zwischen katholischen und evangelischen Leben...
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Informal Employment in Transition Countries: Empirical Evidence and Research Challenges
Even though informal employment is widespread in transition economies, the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determin...
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Open AccessThe costs of worker displacement in urban labor markets of China
J64, J65, P50
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Open AccessThe Ukrainian longitudinal monitoring survey: towards a better understanding of labor markets in transition
The paper presents the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), which is one of the most widely used household and labor force surveys in Eastern Europe. It is based on a statistically representative s...
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Open AccessEditorial: IZA Journal of Labor and Development
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Introduction
This book contains some of the findings of a large project involving researchers from eight institutions in six European countries. This research effort analysed the economic and social effects of industrial r...
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The Evolution of Labour Relations inside a Russian Firm during Late Transition: Evidence from Personnel Data
This chapter surveys three studies on the internal labour market of one Russian firm spanning the years 1997 to 2002 and focuses on three different issues. The studies use unique personnel data that were colle...
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The Effect of Transition on Women in Ukrainian Industry: An Exploration of the ULFS Panel Data
We use a balanced panel of firms based on the Ukrainian Labour Flexibility Study data to explore the fate of female workers in Ukrainian industry over the period 1994 to 2002. Our analysis shows that in overal...
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Worker Displacement in Russia and Ukraine: A Comparative Analysis using Micro Data
Using unique data from a supplement to the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) on displaced workers in Russia and from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) we analyse, and provide the ...
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Assessing Active Labour Market Policies in Transition Economies
With the beginning of economic reform in the formerly centrally planned economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), open unemployment rapidly reached levels comparable to those in Western economies. Governm...
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Trade Liberalisation and Employment Effects in Ukraine
This paper addresses the effects of trade liberalisation on job flows. It studies the case of Ukraine where the sudden opening up of the economy to trade can be viewed as a quasi-natural experiment. We use dis...
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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available labor force statistics relied upon in most studies of transition economy labor markets. We analyse microdata on detailed labor force survey (LFS) respon...
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The Rehabilitation of Martin Luther in the GDR; or, Why Thomas Müntzer Failed to Stabilise the Moorings of Socialist Ideology
In my chapter I will address a major shift in the official ideology of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) with regard to identification with a historical and at the same time religious figure. What I want to...
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Active Labor Market Policies in Central Europe: First Lessons
In the first years of their transition to a market economy the economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) experienced a sharp rise in open unemployment, that reached comparable levels to the worse performin...
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Neues aus der DGfK
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DGfK-Nachrichten
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Bericht aus den Arbeitskreisen
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Productivity, employment and labor demand in Polish industry in the 1980s: Some preliminary results from enterprise-level data
The paper uses annual data from a panel of 334 Polish industrial enterprises over the period 1983–1988 to test empirically a simple neoclassical approach to the socialist labor market. First, an enterprise pro...