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the country's market transition. I show that the 1980s' Household Responsibility System (HRS), which brought family …
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This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...
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This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German Model' in the 1980s. It contrasts the varieties of capitalism approach, which sees business as...
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Household Survey, each reflecting remarkably different environmental conditions. Both the parameter values and the changes …
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will devote to housework. However, when endogeneity of the uses of time are considered using the British Household Panel …
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With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper … standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the impact of individual and household characteristics in explaining … gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as …
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We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic production is mistakenly ignored, the “collective” indirect utilities that are retrieved from observed behavior will be unbiased if and only if the profit function is...
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We set out a general framework for cooperative household models, based on Samuelson’s idea of a household welfare … function, but extending it to incorporate the key insight from Nash bargaining models - the idea that the household …
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Using unique personnel data from one Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 we study the size, development and determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition. The gap is sizable but declines strongly over the entire period. Gender earnings...
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Russia Competitiveness and Investment Climate Survey and related local research to gain insights into the changing supply and … of in-service training in Russia. It investigates the productivity and wages outcomes of in-service training, and the …
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