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Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2006

Kosovo is a war-torn corner of the former Yugoslavia, where a civil war between ethnic Albanians and ethnic Serbs raged during most of the 1990s. We examine the incidence and depth of poverty and some of its correlates in post-conflict Kosovo using the Living Standards Measurement Survey.

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Wage Growth and Inequality Change During Rapid Economic Transition

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2006

East Germany, a unique socialist command economy prior to the 1990s, underwent rapid transition to a market …-oriented economic system. This transition has been of intense interest given the environment of Eastern Germany vis-a-vis Western … Germany, a setting different from most other transition economies. However, changes in the Eastern wage structure during …

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Ethnic Conflict and Economic Disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2006

Using the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household survey from post-conflict Kosovo we investigate the comparative economic well-being of Serbs and Albanians. An Oaxaca decomposition shows Serb households are both better endowed with income generating characteristics, such as...

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Self-Employment and Wage Earning: Hungary During Transition

Gang, Ira N.; Co, Catherine Y.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2002

We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or non-working for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs for workers only....

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Switching Models with Self-Selection: Self-Employment in Hungary

Gang, Ira N.; Co, Catherine Y.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 1999

transition from socialism to greater market orientation. We adopt a (full information) MLE methodology in addition to Heckman …

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