Worker displacement during the transition: Experience from Slovenia

Economics of Transition

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 311-340

  Orazem, Peter F ^a   Vodopivec, Milan ^b   Wu, Ruth ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c Goldman Sachs Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy; Displacement; Quits; Reemployment; Slovenia; Sorting; Specific human capital; Wage growth

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MARKET; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY; UNEMPLOYMENT; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 17744397513     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.2005.00216.x     Document Type: Article

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