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impact on the rest of the economy as well. The paper argues that the demands of enterprise restructuring can not be met …
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This paper discusses the potential role of a Euro-Mediterranean Agreement (EMA) in helping Middle East and North African governments implement structural economic reforms. The arguments for and against preferential liberalization are summarized, identifying a number of necessary conditions for...
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We use time-series methods to estimate a simple aggregate supply and demand model in order to analyse the comparative performance of fixed and flexible exchange rate systems and test competing hypotheses designed to explain shifts between exchange rate regimes. The paper provides a coherent...
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This paper empirically tests the link between trade openness and enterprise restructuring in Bulgaria. It belongs to a …
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In this paper we analyse the relationship between gravity variables and f.o.b. export unit values using Hungarian firm-product-destination data. By taking firm-product level selection into account we show that export unit values increase with distance even for particular firm-product...
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Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...
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accords with economic principles. The authors explain how the `state' should be defined in Hungary, discuss the main forms of … research exercise!), further reform of the tax and public expenditure system, and extensive training of Hungary's public …
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We investigate the effect of changes in unemployment insurance (UI) rules in Hungary on the outflow rate from the UI … register. Existing claims to UI are `grandfathered' in Hungary when UI rules change - new rules are applied only to new claims … unemployed in Hungary to be fairly inelastic to changes in UI benefits. …
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in Hungary we find that the male/female difference in log wages declined from 0.31 to 0.19 between 1986 and 1998 and that …
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Labour market analysis places much emphasis on the concept of search. But there is insufficient empirical information on (a) the relationship between reported search and job-finding and (b) how search behaviour changes over a spell without work. We investigate these issues using a sample...
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