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The purpose of this paper is to suggest that a fundamental shift in Europe, along with the other OECD countries, is … made a plea for guidance in the era of entrepreneurship, scholars have been slow to respond. The purpose of this paper is … introduced a greater element of entrepreneurship have been rewarded with additional growth. …
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We ask whether Poland is at risk of the boom-bust problem that has afflicted economies around the time of euro adoption …. Our answer, inevitably, is mixed. On the one hand the fact that Poland is an outlier, credit-growth wise, accentuates the … Poland. And it is certainly conceivable that the same policies and country characteristics (not always visible to the …
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This paper studies the role of wage and pension pressures in explaining the budget deficit crisis of 1991–2 after the remarkable 1990 Polish economic stabilization and liberalization. It also explains the persistence of the high tax wedge that later helped overcome the budget crisis. The...
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Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The observed trade collapse in 1991 was exacerbated by deep domestic recession and … political unrest in the region. To alleviate the costs of transition and to preserve existing trade links in Eastern Europe, the … Payments Union. But the present situation in Eastern Europe is different in many important respects from that of Western Europe …
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Poland has tackled its economic problems with courage and, thus far, success. Hyperinflation has ceased, the well …
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We use spatial regression discontinuity analysis to test whether the historical partition of Poland among three empires …—Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Prussia—has a persistent effect on political outcomes in contemporary Poland and to examine the channels …
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in Poland. The analysis is based on retrospective monthly calendar information on the labour force state and Active …
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The paper analyses how a firm-level tax (or subsidy) calculated on the average wage relative to a pre-set norm may promote employment. We assume a monopoly union setting wages at the firm level to maximize that part of the wage bill exceeding the reservation wage. The fiscal device affects union...
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We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
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This paper uses the sequencing of privatisation to infer the objective pursued by the Polish government in the privatisation of its large manufacturing firms in the second half of the 1990's. We construct a model of mixed oligopoly, and use it to evaluate the privatisation process; our analysis...
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