inequality among the poor is unavoidable. Finally, a successful land reform allows for the transition of a society from an …

Using state-level data from India over the period 1983 to 2005, this paper gauges the effect of financial deepening and … among self-employed in the rural areas, while at the same time it supported an inter-state migration trend from rural areas … inducing geographic-sectoral migration. …

We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban … city and a restricting-migration policy that imposes some costs on migrants. We show that all these policies can increase … effect on urban wages, which reduces job creation and thus migration. When these two effects are combined with search …

. We find that decreasing the unemployment benefit in the city creates urban jobs and reduces rural-urban migration since …-urban migration. In this respect, the employment subsidy policy can backfire by raising rather than reducing urban unemployment. …

Russian population about the transition process and the role of the state compared to that of free markets. We find that about … one half of Russian population is disappointed with transition and a large majority is in favor of high state regulation …

, inter-firm arrears and barter in transition economies are connected. Based on a survey of 165 barter deals in the Ukraine in …

the transition. The Czech Republic and Hungary have had some success moving into the production and export of more …