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The analysis of labor markets in transition economies is still a wide and flourishing field within labor economics. The program pursues several strands of this analysis: looking at special adjustment mechanisms in the labor market, emphasizing the differences between Central European countries and the countries of the Former Soviet Union; evaluating the success of labor market reforms in the light of Western experience; discussing the lessons that can be drawn from these reform efforts for EU economies; analyzing labor issues that are connected to EU accession of the Central European countries; examining the internal labor market in Russia and Ukraine; comparative studying labor market reforms and how they relate to general economic policies and political institutions; and last, but not least, investigating important issues related to Chinese labor market reform. IZA research in this area will also be extended to labor markets in the emerging economies of Africa, Asia and Latin America in order to study e. g. the analysis of the nexus between labor market reforms and poverty alleviation, and the impact of universal labor standards on formal employment in these countries.

As a part of research pursuit, we also engage in several data collection projects, including the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, personnel data from large Russian and Ukrainian firms, and Longitudinal Survey on Rural Urban Migration in China.

For general information about this program area, please contact: transition@iza.org

Core Members of this Program Area:
Prof. Hartmut Lehmann, Ph.D., Program Director and Visiting Research Fellow
Alexander Muravyev, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate

Affiliated Members of this Program Area include:
Prof. Olivier Bargain, Ph.D., Visiting Research Fellow
Nuria Rodriguez-Planas, Ph.D., Visiting Research Fellow
Zahra Siddique, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate
Anzelika Zaiceva, Ph.D., Visiting Research Fellow

Please click here to see the full list of IZA Research Fellows affiliated with this Program Area.

    Hartmut Lehmann,
Program Director, University of Bologna

Email: hartmut.lehmann@unibo.it
 
Alexander Muravyev,
Deputy Program Director, IZA

Tel.: +49-228-38 94 412
Email: muravyev@iza.org

 
Events
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Events
Date Title Location Deadline
05.10.2012  - 06.10.2012 IZA/Higher School of Economics Workshop: Labor Market Adjustment in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Central Asia in the Wake of the Great Recession Moscow, Russia  
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Projects

IZA projects on informal employment in Georgia and Russia



Funded by: Volkswagen Foundation and Fritz Thyssen Foundation
Project Start: 2011/07/01
Project End: 2014/06/30
Project leader(s): Hartmut Lehmann (University of Bologna and IZA)
Participants: Anzelika Zaiceva (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and IZA),  Zahra Siddique (IZA)
Short Description: 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. [read more]
Last updated: 2012/01/20

The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS)



Funded by: Consortium led by IZA; the other permanent members of the consortium are: CERT, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh; EERC Ukraine; and RWI Essen.
Project Start: 2002/07/01
Project leader(s): Hartmut Lehmann (University of Bologna and IZA)
Short Description: 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.
Publications:
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter "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).
Ina Ganguli, Katherine Terrell "Institutions, markets and men's and women's wage inequality: Evidence from Ukraine", in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34(2), 200-227.
Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti, Jonathan Wadsworth "The incidence and cost of job loss in the Ukrainian labor market", in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34(2), 248-271.
Olga Kupets "Determinants of unemployment duration in Ukraine", in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34(2), 228-247.
J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Volodymyr Vakhitov "Wages, layoffs, and privatization: Evidence from Ukraine", in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34(2), 272-294.
Amelie F. Constant, Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann "The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide", IZA DP No. 2530, December 2006, (published in: Eastern European Economics, 2011, 49 (6), 103–115) [view abstract]
Amelie F. Constant, Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann "The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide", IZA DP No. 2330, September 2006, (forthcoming in: Economics of Transition, 2012, 20 (1)) [view abstract]
Tilman Brück, Alexander M. Danzer, Alexander Muravyev, Natalia Danzer (née Weisshaar) "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]
Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth "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]
Last updated: 2012/01/17
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Recent Discussion Papers
No. Author(s) Title Date PDF Link to Abstract
6335 Eswar Prasad, Lei (Sandy) Ye The Renminbi's Role in the Global Monetary System February 2012 Abstract
6313 Johannes Koettl, Michael Weber Does Formal Work Pay? The Role of Labor Taxation and Social Benefit Design in the New EU Member States
(forthcoming in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012)		 January 2012 Abstract
6298 Andreas Landmann, Björn Vollan, Markus Frölich Insurance versus Savings for the Poor: Why One Should Offer Either Both or None January 2012 Abstract
6293 Antje Kroeger, Kathryn H. Anderson Remittances and Children's Capabilities: New Evidence from Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2008 January 2012 Abstract
6292 Luis Felipe López-Calva, Jamele Rigolini, Florencia Torche Is There Such Thing as Middle Class Values? Class Differences, Values and Political Orientations in Latin America January 2012 Abstract
6289 Alisher Aldashev, Barbara Dietz Economic and Spatial Determinants of Interregional Migration in Kazakhstan January 2012 Abstract
6285 Michal Franta, Martin Guzi Unequal Access to Higher Education in the Czech Republic: The Role of Spatial Distribution of Universities January 2012 Abstract
6271 Aysit Tansel, Elif Oznur Kan Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data January 2012 Abstract
6268 Jason Gagnon, Theodora Xenogiani, Chunbing Xing Are All Migrants Really Worse Off in Urban Labour Markets? New Empirical Evidence from China December 2011 Abstract
6265 Richard Akresh, Joyce J. Chen, Charity Moore Altruism, Cooperation, and Efficiency: Agricultural Production in Polygynous Households December 2011 Abstract
6263 Biwei Su, Almas Heshmati Development and Sources of Labor Productivity in Chinese Provinces December 2011 Abstract
6256 Irina Berezinets, Yulia Ilina, Alexander Muravyev CEO and Board Characteristics as Determinants of Private Benefits of Control: Evidence from the Russian Stock Exchange December 2011 Abstract
6252 Biwei Su, Almas Heshmati Analysis of Gender Wage Differential in China's Urban Labor Market December 2011 Abstract
6249 Xiaoyan Lei, John Strauss, Meng Tian, Yaohui Zhao Living Arrangements of the Elderly in China: Evidence from CHARLS December 2011 Abstract
6246 Regina T. Riphahn, Daniel D. Schnitzlein Wage Mobility in East and West Germany December 2011 Abstract
6236 Ilhom Abdulloev, Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane Migration as a Substitute for Informal Activities: Evidence from Tajikistan
(forthcoming in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012)		 December 2011 Abstract
6232 Krzysztof Karbownik, Michal Myck Mommies' Girls Get Dresses, Daddies' Boys Get Toys: Gender Preferences in Poland and their Implications December 2011 Abstract
6231 Veronica Amarante, Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel, Andrea Vigorito Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data December 2011 Abstract
6230 Hartmut Lehmann, Tiziano Razzolini, Anzelika Zaiceva Job Separations and Informality in the Russian Labor Market
(forthcoming in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012)		 December 2011 Abstract
6228 Arnab K. Basu, Nancy Chau, Zahra Siddique Tax Evasion, Minimum Wage Non-Compliance and Informality
(forthcoming in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012)		 December 2011 Abstract
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Selected Publications

Collective Volume Articles:
Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev "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.
Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev, Norberto Pignatti, Tiziano Razzolini, Anzelika Zaiceva "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.
Hartmut Lehmann, Anzelika Zaiceva "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.
Tom Coupé, Hartmut Lehmann "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.
Tilman Brück, Alexander M. Danzer, Natalia Danzer (née Weisshaar), Alexander Muravyev "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.
 

Journal Articles:
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter "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).
Zhong Zhao "Migration, Labor Market Flexibility, and Wage Determination in China: A Review", in: Developing Economies, 2005, 43(2), 285-312.
J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Volodymyr Vakhitov "Wages, layoffs, and privatization: Evidence from Ukraine", in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34(2), 272-294.
Ina Ganguli, Katherine Terrell "Institutions, markets and men's and women's wage inequality: Evidence from Ukraine", in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34(2), 200-227.
Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti, Jonathan Wadsworth "The incidence and cost of job loss in the Ukrainian labor market", in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34(2), 248-271.
Olga Kupets "Determinants of unemployment duration in Ukraine", in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34(2), 228-247.
Alexander Muravyev "Human Capital Externalities: Evidence from the Transition Economy of Russia", in: Economics of Transition, 2008, 16(3), 415-443.
Jochen Kluve, Hartmut Lehmann, Christoph M. Schmidt "Disentangling Treatment Effects of Active Labor Market Policies: The Role of Labor Force Status Sequences", in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(6), 1270-1295.
Tilman Brück, Alexander M. Danzer, Alexander Muravyev, Natalia Weisshaar "Poverty during transition: Household survey evidence from Ukraine", in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, 38(2), 123-145.
Zaiceva Anzelika "East-West Migration and Gender: Is There a Differential Effect for Migrant Women?", in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17(2), 443-454.
Zahra Siddique "Evidence on Caste-Based Discrimination", in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18(S1), S146-S159.
Hartmut Lehmann, Tiziano Razzolini, Anzelika Zaiceva "Job Separations and Informality in the Russian Labor Market", in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, forthcoming.
Alpaslan Akay, Melanie Khamis "The Persistence of Informality: Evidence from Panel Data", in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, forthcoming.
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Klaus F. Zimmermann "Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China", in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 81, 421-441.
Alexander Muravyev "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.
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