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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Peters, Bettina - EconWPA - 2005

Using a recently developed model which allows to separate a few well- established employment effects of product and … process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany …. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific information provided by …

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INEQUALITY AND DETERMINANTS OF EARNINGS IN MALAYSIA, 1984-97

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2005

Using the large nationally-representative Malaysian Household Income Surveys from 1984, 1989 and 1997, the paper …

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UNDERGROUND ACTIVITY AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: PRODUCTIVE, PROTECTIVE AND PREDATORY BEHAVIOR IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines why some transitions are more successful than others by focusing attention on the role of productive, protective and predatory behaviors from the perspective of the new institutional economics. Many transition economies are characterized by a fundamental inconsistency between...

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Worker-firm Matching and Unemployment in Transition to a Market

Munich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - EconWPA - 2001

In this paper we compare the nature and determinants of outflows from unemployment in the case of the Czech and Slovak Republics which in early 1990’s experienced a process close to a controlled experiment. Overall, our study suggests that the exceptionally low unemployment rate in the Czech...

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The Inequality of Influence

Hellman, Joel; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the resulting inequality as crony bias in the political...

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Far From Home: Do Foreign Investors Import Higher Standards of Governance in Transition Economies?

Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in transition countries, which unbundles corruption to measure different types of corrupt transactions and provide detailed information on the characteristics and performance of firms, we find that: i)...

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Subjective Economic Well-Being in Eastern Europe

Hayo, Bernd; Seifert, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2002

income position, as well as a negative effect of unemployment. Differing results were found with regard to gender and marital …

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PERESTROIKA AND RUBLE CONVERTIBILITY

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the role of money in market and centrally planned economies. It then proposes a program and sequence of institutional, macroeconomic and monetary reform aimed at achieving a stable transition. An egalitarian redistribution of the state's custodial assets to its citizens is...

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THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM AS AN END OR AS A MEANS AND THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM AND CAPITALISM: AN EVOLUTIONARY VIEWPOINT

Chilosi, Alberto - EconWPA - 2003

After the demise of “real” socialism and the decline of “western” socialism, socialism can be salvaged as a social preference system oriented towards equality and social justice, to be implemented without systemic constraints in the organizational and institutional sense. At the same...

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the Transition Process in China: A theoretic and empirical Study

Pu, Chen; Chihying, Hsiao - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we analyse the driving forces of the transition from plan to market in China. A two segments and two sectors model is constructed to take into account the particular economic situation in China during the transition process: a large agricultural sector and an industrial sector; a...

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