Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74859 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
LICOS Discussion Paper No. 206
Publisher: 
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, Leuven
Abstract: 
This paper deals with labour mobility in Georgia during economic transition. We use quarterly 1998-99 panel data to examine mobility across six labour market statuses (inactivity, unemployment, firmal wage employment, infirmal wage employment, selfemployment and firming). Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis of labour market segmentation. firmal employment is preferred to infirmal employment. Unemployment is largely a queuing device for individuals with higher education waiting for firmal jobs. Some self-employment is subsistence activities and consistent with a segmented labour market, while other is high risk and potentially high return activities. Age, gender and education are significant detfirminants of labour mobility. Finally, infirmal employment serves as a buffer in times of recession -with firming and infirmal wage employment absorbing labour shed by other statuses during the Russian financial crisis.
Subjects: 
labour mobility
informal labour
transition
Georgia
JEL: 
J21
P23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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