Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Arbeitsmärkte in Transformations- und Schwellenländern
Nach wie vor spielt die Untersuchung der Arbeitsmärkte in Transformationsländern eine große Rolle innerhalb der Arbeitsmarktökonomie. Im Mittelpunkt der IZA-Forschungsarbeiten auf diesem Gebiet stehen länderspezifische Anpassungsvorgänge auf dem Arbeitsmarkt, die Evaluation des Erfolgs von Arbeitsmarktreformen vor dem Hintergrund der Erfahrungen aus westlichen Ländern, Lehren für den Reformprozess in den „alten“ EU-Volkswirtschaften sowie nicht zuletzt die Analyse von Arbeitsmarktprozessen, die in Verbindung mit der EU-Osterweiterung stehen. Der Fokus liegt sowohl auf den zentraleuropäischen Staaten als auch den Transformationsländern der ehemaligen Sowjetunion, in denen die ökonomischen Reformen im Vergleich zu Zentraleuropa mit geringerer Konsequenz verfolgt werden. Darüber hinaus beschäftigt sich die Analyse mit den Arbeitsmärkten in den aufstrebenden Wirtschaften Afrikas, Asiens und Lateinamerikas, wobei neben Gesichtspunkten der Armutsüberwindung auch der Frage nachgegangen wird, wie sich die Anwendung universeller Arbeitsstandards auf reguläre Arbeitsverhältnisse in diesen Ländern auswirkt.
Kontaktadresse für allgemeine Informationen zu diesem Programm: transition@iza.org
Informal employment is a wide-spread phenomenon in transition economies that has not been investigated in the literature in a satisfactory fashion. The two projects make it possible to comparatively analyze informal employment in two countries with very different levels of development. For example, in 2008 Georgia had a much larger rural population, a much lower pro capita income and average wages that were roughly one half of those of Russia. By investigating the extent to which these differences have an impact on the incidence of informality and its distribution across the workforce will allow us to distinguish between idiosyncratic and systemic factors driving informality in transition. The projects also explore some new research areas regarding informal employment insofar as they will look at the link between risk attitudes and time preferences of workers and the incidence of informal employment. [weiterlesen]
Letzte Änderung: 20.01.2012
The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS)
Auftraggeber:
Consortium led by IZA; the other permanent members of the consortium are: CERT, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh; EERC Ukraine; and RWI Essen.
Ukraine, being one of the largest successor states of the former Soviet Union, is virtually terra incognita as far as our knowledge of labor market adjustment is concerned. While there has been some limited work done on labor market adjustment in Ukraine using firm survey and firm register data no serious studies exist that get at the behavior of individuals and households in the Ukrainian labor market. The main reason for this is the lack of good data at the individual and household level.
To alleviate this situation this program started an initiative to create a panel data set on the Ukrainian working age population, the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS). The ULMS panel data set, similar to the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, is conceived as a statistically representative sample of the Ukrainian population aged between 15 and 72 years, comprising 4000 households and approximately 8,500 individuals. The survey is being done by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS). The first two waves of the data (collected in the spring of 2003 and of 2004) are now available to researchers of the sponsor organizations. These first two waves will become public user data in 2006.
The ULMS survey instrument is very detailed. The household questionnaire contains questions on the demographic structure of the household, its income and expenditure patterns as well as living conditions. The core of the survey instrument is however the individual questionnaire, which tries to elicit very detailed information about the labor market experience of Ukrainian workers. Apart from standard LFS sections, there is an extensive retrospective part for the first wave, which tracks workers’ labor market involvement at specific past points in time and which allows a complete reconstruction of workers’ labor market histories between January 1998 and the date of the interview in 2003. For subsequent waves, there are retrospective sections that again allow the reconstruction of a complete history between the preceding and the current wave. In addition there are sections on education and skills, the ownership structure and its evolution at workers’ firms, spatial mobility, health status and political and environmental attitudes. Finally, there is a large set of questions about wage arrears, payments in kind, unpaid leave etc. in order to address specific adjustment mechanisms that have taken place in Ukraine like in other labor markets of CIS countries. The ULMS provides arguably the most complete data source on labor market developments in any country of the CIS.
"Returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A semiparametric approach to cross-country comparative analysis", in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33(2), 324-350 (IZA DP No. 1325).
"The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide", IZA DP No. 2530, December 2006, (published in: Eastern European Economics, 2011, 49 (6), 103–115) [view abstract]
"Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine", IZA DP No. 3228, December 2007, (revised version published as 'Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, 38 (2), 123-145) [view abstract]
"The Impact of Chernobyl on Health and Labour Market Performance in the Ukraine", IZA DP No. 4467, October 2009, (revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 843-857) [view abstract]
Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants (forthcoming in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013)
The Costs of Worker Displacement in Urban Labor Markets of China (puplished in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2013, 2, Article 4 [Open Access])
"Labor Markets and Labor Market Institutions in Transition Economies", in: P.Hare and G.Turley (Eds.), "The Handbook on the Economics and Political Economy of Transition", 2012, Routledge, forthcoming.
"Worker Displacement in Russia and Ukraine: A Comparative Analysis Using Micro Data", in: T.Brück and H.Lehmann (Eds.), "In the Grip of Transition: Economic and Social Consequences of Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine", 2012, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 7-46.
"The Evolution of Labor Relations inside a Russian Firm during Late Transition: Evidence from Personnel Data", in: T. Brück and H. Lehmann (Eds.), "In the Grip of Transition: Economic and Social Consequences of Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine", 2012, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 98-127.
"The Effect of Transition on Women in Ukrainian Industry: An Exploration of the ULFS Panel Data", in: T.Brück and H.Lehmann (Eds.), “In the Grip of Transition: Economic and Social Consequences of Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine", 2012, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.156-172.
"Labor Market Restructuring and Poverty: Household Evidence from Ukraine", in: T.Brück and H.Lehmann (Eds.), “Economic and Social Consequences of Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine”, 2012, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.173-204.
"Returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A semiparametric approach to cross-country comparative analysis", in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33(2), 324-350 (IZA DP No. 1325).
"Disentangling Treatment Effects of Active Labor Market Policies: The Role of Labor Force Status Sequences", in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(6), 1270-1295.
"Investor Protection and the Value of Shares: Evidence from Statutory Rules Governing Variations of Shareholders’ Class Rights in an Emerging Market", in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2013, forthcoming.
