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Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...
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The Cold War division of Korea, regarded as a natural experiment in institutional change, provides a unique opportunity to examine whether institutions affect social preferences. We recruited North Korean refugees and South Korean students to conduct laboratory experiments eliciting social...
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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …
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Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …
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This study looks into the use of fixed term contracts and agency work in Russia during and shortly after the crisis …
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rich data from Russia that cover 89 regions over 10 years, from 2001 to 2010. Our empirical analysis draws on the …
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With declining population and fertility rates below replacement levels, Russia is currently facing a demographic crisis …
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measures of informality by taking advantage of a rich dataset on Russia over the period 2003 - 2011, that is before and after …
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Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the … wage distribution faced by workers. We test this hypothesis using data from ten panel rounds of Russia Longitudinal …
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but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …
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