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Unemployment in East and West Europe
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the evolution of unemployment together with that of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822900
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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703404
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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this “negative spillover” effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762398