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(Un)Happiness in Transition
Guriev, Sergei; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Despite strong growth performance in transition economies in the last decade, residents of transition countries report … explanations of this phenomenon. First, we document that the disparity in life satisfaction between residents of transition and non-transition … macroeconomic volatility, and a mismatch of human capital of residents educated before transition which disproportionately affected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667036
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EU's Eastern Neighbours: Institutional Harmonisation and Potential Growth Bonus
Radziwill, Artur; Smietanka, Pawel - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2009
This paper provides the quantitative estimate of the potential growth bonus for CIS countries, and in particular EU's Easter Neighbours, that can be a result of deeper institutional harmonisation with the EU. Econometric investigation involving instrumental variable, simultaneous equation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633062
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Providing Greater Old-Age Security in China
Herd, Richard; Hu, Hu-Wei; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
China’s population is set to age fast, owing to low fertility and rising life expectancy. With ongoing migration of the younger cohorts to urban areas the increase in the old-age dependency ratio will be even more pronounced in rural than in urban areas. Very different pension arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542491
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Democracy and Reforms
Giuliano, Paola; Mishra, Prachi; Spilimbergo, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset on reforms in the financial, capital, public, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662186
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Energy Security, Poverty and Vulnerability in Central Asia and the Wider European Neighbourhood
Slay, Ben - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2009
-state to the household, and particularly to poor households in the transition and developing economies of the former Soviet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633044
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Policy Challenges Faced by Low-Income CIS Economies
DABROWSKI, Marek - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2008
In the 1990s, the CIS region experienced a painful transformation following the collapse of the USSR and the command economy. For the less developed republics of the former USSR, this process was even more dramatic as they lost subsidies from the Union's budget and some of them suffered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633074
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Pension Reform Options for Russia and Ukraine: A Critical Analysis of Available Options and Their Expected Outcomes
Gora, Marek; Rohozynsky, Oleksandr; Sinyavskaya, Oksana - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2010
This paper provides the results of analyses of key problems related to pension systems and their reforms in Russia and Ukraine. The pension systems and their reforms in both countries are compared. They are also compared with the general picture observed in the OECD or selected countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529162
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Ukraine at a Crossroads
DABROWSKI, Marek - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2007
The Orange Revolution in the fall of 2004 built great hopes for a better future for Ukraine. However, three years later those hopes have been replaced by disappointment, frustration and confusion. Although progress in the areas of political freedom, pluralism, civil rights and freedom in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633029
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The Emerging Aversion to Inequality: Evidence from Poland 1992-2005
Grosfeld, Irena; Senik, Claudia - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2008
economic transformation and rapid economic growth. We focus on the Polish transition experience, and explore individuals' self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633073
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Federal Tax Arrears in Russia: Liquidity Problems, Federal Redistribution or Russian Resistance?
Ponomareva, Maria; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Three hypotheses about the nature of federal tax arrears in Russia in the second half of the 1990s are tested empirically. Tax arrears can be a result of: 1) liquidity problems in firms, 2) redistribute subsidies of the federal government, or 3) regional political resistance to federal tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791588