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Employment and wage dynamics in Estonia, 1989-95

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  • Noorkoiv, Rivo
  • Orazem, Peter F.
  • Puur, Allan
  • Vodopivec, Milan

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This study monitors the effects of economic transition on wages and employment in a former Soviet Republic. Estonia's case is of particular interest because of its early adoption of relatively free labour market policies. Relative wages for the highest educated groups rose for all age groups. There were also rapid increases in returns to job experience, particularly at young ages. Increasing wage dispersion across human capital groups was accompanied by narrowing wage dispersion within human capital groups. Relative wages rose in sectors which gained relative employment, while they fell in shrinking sectors. In addition, there were large flows of labour between shrinking and growing sectors, suggesting that labour market equilibrating mechanisms developed very rapidly in Estonia.

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  • Noorkoiv, Rivo & Orazem, Peter F. & Puur, Allan & Vodopivec, Milan, 1998. "Employment and wage dynamics in Estonia, 1989-95," ISU General Staff Papers 199811010800001297, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:isu:genstf:199811010800001297
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