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The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … in transition, including the relatively low importance of unemployment and the existence of poverty even among households … with employment. Poverty determinants change over time in line with the experience of transition and restructuring. …
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The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty inUkraine during transition … transition, including the relatively lowimportance of unemployment and the existence of poverty even among households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071138
In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal minimum wage of € 7.5 per hour on the basis of a...
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In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...
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The rapid changes in the transition economies must be evaluated in a comparative context. This paper provides a … extent and speed with which the structures of the transition economies are converging towards other country groups ranked … according to income levels. This exercise provides an alternate measure of transition "success" which is grounded in …
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Interregional differentials in nominal wages in the Russian Federation are huge compared to other countries. Using the NOBUS micro-data and a methodology based on the estimation of the wage equation augmented by aggregate regional characteristics, we show that these differentials have a...
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We investigate the effects of regional and industry-wide foreign presence and foreign direct investment (FDI) on export volumes of Ukrainian manufacturing firms using unpublished panel data from 1996-2000. Foreign presence through FDI may have negative competition effects on domestic firms'...
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This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed … cover thousands of firms from virtually all transition countries over a long time period (1996-99 through 2002-05), as well … convergence of transition countries with developed market economies in a number of dimensions. The pattern of growth at the …
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transition countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary). We compare the relative technical efficiency of East …
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In this paper we test the hypothesis that the economic transition toward a market economy increases the efficiency of … that the technical efficiency of the companies has indeed increased during the transition, while allocative efficiency has …
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