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Wage and Income Inequality in Slovenia, 1993-2002
Stanovnik, Tine; Verbic, Miroslav - EconWPA - 2005
up. To a large degree, we ascribe the major increase in wage inequality to the rapid development of a full-fledged market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125991
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Social Capital
Durlauf, Steven; Fafchamps, Marcel - EconWPA - 2004
This paper surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062449
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Corruption, Governance and Security: Challenges for the Rich Countries and the World
Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2004
Traditionally, national governance and corruption challenges have been seen as: i) particularly daunting in the poorer countries, with the richer world viewed as exemplary; ii) anchored within a legalistic framework and focused on formal institutions, iii) a challenge within public sectors, and,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408399
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Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996-2002
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2003
This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561191
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Quality of Government Services and the Civic Duty to Pay Taxes in the Czech and Slovak Republics, and other Transition Countries
Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002
A 2002 survey of 1089 Czechs and 501 Slovaks, as well as a more limited survey of Hungary, and Poland, indicates that … frequent tax evaders and a 12% increase in the number who never evade. Governments in transition countries who suffer from weak …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408409
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Modelling the effects of subsistence on Bulgarian agricultural performance
Kostov, Philip; Lingard, John - EconWPA - 2004
development in countries in transition. The problem of subsistence consists of the different economic behaviour of subsistence … agricultural economy in transition, namely Bulgaria. The results are consistent with the theoretical and empirical work of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134586
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Agricultural policy options distinguishing a subsistence sub- sector in Bulgaria
Mishev, Plamen; Ivanova, Nedka; Kostov, Philip - EconWPA - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134587
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Institutional foundations of subsistence agriculture in transition economies
Kostov, Philip; Lingard, John - EconWPA - 2004
analysed in terms of the institutional characteristics of the transition process. The concepts of institutions and … transition. The process of shortening which gives rise to subsistence agriculture is described. It is demonstrated to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062467
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Financial Liberalization and Business Cycles: The Experience of Future EU Member States in the Baltics and Central Eastern Europe
Souza, Lucio Vinhas de - EconWPA - 2004
This paper extends the work of Kaminsky and Schmukler (2003) to the Baltic and Central Eastern European future Member States of the European Union, to test if the same short-run increase in cyclical volatility arising from financial integration is observed in this specific sample of “emerging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062709
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On the nature of Bulgarian subsistence agriculture
Kostov, Philip; Lingard, John - EconWPA - 2004
In most countries of Central and Eastern Europe the process of transition to market economy resulted in an increasingly … sufficient to remind that it simply does not fit the definition of transition, which is viewed as a process that has to bring … subsistence agriculture as a temporary phenomenon that will perish as transition advances. The basic textbook economic theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407813