The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in the Ukrainian Labor Market

Hartmut Lehmann (), Norberto Pignatti and Jonathan Wadsworth

No 1770, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We examine the effects of economic transition on the pattern and costs of worker displacement in Ukraine, using the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) for the years 1992 to 2002. Displacement rates in the Ukrainian labor market average between 3.4 and 4.8 percent of employment, roughly in line with levels typically observed in several Western economies, but considerably larger than in Russia. The characteristics of displaced workers are similar to those displaced in the West, in so far as displacement is concentrated on the less skilled. Around one third of displaced workers find re-employment immediately while the majority continues into long-term non-employment. The wage costs of displacement for the sub-sample of displaced workers do not seem to be large. The main cost for displaced workers in Ukraine consists in the extremely long non-employment spell that the average worker experiences after layoff.

Keywords: displaced workers; labor markets in transition; Ukraine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 J65 P50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2005-09
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Published - published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34 (2), 248-271

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