The incidence and cost of job loss in a transition economy: Displaced workers in Estonia, 1989 to 1999

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 59-87

  Lehmann, Hartmut ^a,b,c   Philips, Kaia ^d   Wadsworth, Jonathan ^b,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Displaced workers; Labor markets in transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844266531     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2004.11.002     Document Type: Article

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