Worker displacement in Russia and Ukraine: a comparative analysis using micro data
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Using unique data from a supplement to the RLMS on displaced workers in Russia and from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) we analyze and provide the first solid evidence on displacement in Russia and Ukraine in a period of growth. Our estimates establish that quits
dominate separations but that displacement rates are clearly not negligible amounting to between 2.5 and 3 percent of employment in Russia and between 2 and 5 percent in Ukraine. We also show that displacements are not random. Results that are valid across both countries demonstrate that unskilled and less educated workers are more affected as are workers in the agricultural sector. In countries like Russia and Ukraine where un employment benefits are not generous or non-existent for the average worker long spells of non-employment can impose large monetary costs on workers. Presenting cumulative return rates for job movers we point to these costs by highlighting the fact that there is a very sizable privileged group of displaced workers who finds a new job within a very short time while the majority has difficulty in finding new employment. It is this group (larger in Ukraine than in Russia), which is not so rapidly absorbed by the labor market, that should be the target of social policy intervention by the Russian and Ukrainian governments.
CHAP
In the Grip of Transition: Economic and Social Consequences of Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine
Lehmann, Hartmut
Muravyev, Alexander
Pignatti, Norberto
Razzolini, Tiziano
Zaiceva, Anzelika
Bruck, Tilman
Lehmann, Hartmut
2010
7-46
Palgrave Macmillan
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