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In brief... Chernobyl: the long-term health and economic consequences

Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth assess the long-lasting effects of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster on the people of Ukraine....Read more...

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The Impact of Chernobyl on Health and Labour Market Performance

Using longitudinal data from Ukraine we examine the extent of any long-lasting effects of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster on the health and labour market performance of the adult workforce. The variation i...Read more...

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Wage arrears and inequality in the distribution of pay: lessons from Russia

in Aspects of Worker Well-Being

Many developing and transition countries, and even some in the industrialized West, experience periods in which a substantial proportion of the workforce suffer wage arrears. We examine the implications for estimates of ...Read more...

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

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 Labour Force Survey and The R...Read more...

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

The initial years of transition in the Russian Federation have been characterised by relatively smaller falls in employment than in other reform-orientated countries of eastern Europe, despite the huge negative shock cau...Read more...

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Labour Market Flows and the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies in Poland

This study investigates three issues of the Polish labour market adapting 'transition methodology' to regional (Voivodship-level) panel data. First, we test for a well behaved matching technology of the unemployed and ...Read more...

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The Effectiveness of the Restart Programme and Enterprise Allowance Scheme

The Restart programme and the Enterprise Allowance Scheme were introduced in the eighties to combat the high levels and the persistence of unemployment. This paper uses aggregate time series to investigate whether these ...Read more...

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The Eastern German Labour Market in Transition: Gross Flow Estimates from Panel Data

Following the unification of the two Germanies in October 1990, the former German Democratic Republic was subject to a series of economic shocks, resulting in large declines in output and employment. This paper investiga...Read more...

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Flow and Stock Analysis of Polish Unemployment: January 1990 - May 1991

Unemployment is and will be for the foreseeable future one of the major issues of economies in transition. Not only is unemployment in Post-communist economies a socially explosive problem, what happens on the unemployme...Read more...