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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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This paper uses a country-level panel dataset to test the hypothesis that the United States biases its human rights reports of countries based on the latters’ strategic value. We use the difference between the U.S. State Department’s and Amnesty International’s reports as a measure of U.S....
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Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown …
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employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector … and find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460m and 580m U.S. dollars (0 ….9-1.2% of Ukraine’s GDP in 2003). …
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Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in ‘gradualist’ Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
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This Paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique dataset of more than … connection with other evidence we infer from this that Ukraine is only at the beginning of the restructuring process. The most …
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Using an RAS update to 1990 of an 86-sector input-output table for Hungary in 1986, and corresponding data on world … sectors are obtained under a variety of conditions. Hungary's trade relationships and constraints on trade make it uncertain … Hungary and the EC on Hungary's competitiveness, finding that some sectors will be strengthened, e.g. forestry, agriculture …
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The collapse of the CMEA completed the Hungarian trade reorientation during the second half of the 1980s. Panel model estimations of trade reorientation reveal that cost efficiency, export subsidy and foreign demand played important and varying roles between 1981 and 1990. During the last two...
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How valuable are the skills acquired under socialism in a market economy? This Paper throws light on this question using unique data covering the years before and during transition (1986-98) for about 3 million Hungarian wage earners. We find that returns to a year of schooling increased by 75%...
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benefit systems. We investigate this issue with a field experiment in Hungary involving random assignment of benefit claimants …
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