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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703823
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Institutions, Networks and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: An Exploration
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia …. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak … institutional environment in Russia in terms of three dimensions: on the rate of productive entrepreneurial activity measured in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763681
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Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization
Siebert, W. Stanley; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be "commercial awareness", where able managers raise labour productivity by 17%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703534
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How Does Education Affect the Earnings Distribution in Urban China?
Wang, Le - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
China's phenomenal growth is accompanied by both relatively low level of standards of living and high inequality. It is widely believe that investing in education could be an effective strategy to promote higher standards of living as well as to reduce inequality. However, little is known about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368922
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Employment and Education Policy for Young People in the EU: What Can New Member States Learn from Old Member States?
Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy and the Bologna process. A dramatic shift has taken place from the 1990s emphasis on labour market flexibility as a tool to abate youth long term unemployment to the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703797
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Private Returns to Human Capital over Transition: A Case Study of Belarus
Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The gradualist approach to economic transition in Belarus would contribute to form the a priori expectation that the rate of return to education is low and the earnings profile by work experience flat, like they supposedly were under central-planning. However, the first available estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703817
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The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus
Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates have reduced, in the case of Belarus women’ activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender pay gap. This paper investigates why this is the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822791
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The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Why is it that, as the Chinese Communist Party has loosened its grip, abandoned its core beliefs, and marketized the economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761810
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When Does Transition Increase the Gender Wage Gap? An Application to Belarus
Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper suggests an analytical framework to analyse the joint evolution of female participation and wages across countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Former Soviet Union (FSU), of which Belarus is a particular case. In CEE, female participation has reduced relatively more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762048