We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition …

This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to …

countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Former Soviet Union (FSU), of which Belarus is a particular case. In CEE … more than participation, due to labour hoarding practices. In Belarus, only wages adjust, since (mainly state owned) firms …

The gradualist approach to economic transition in Belarus would contribute to form the a priori expectation that the …

have reduced, in the case of Belarus women’ activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender …

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high … applications by about 0.2%. By contrast, the impact of high-skilled immigrants on innovation is positive, in line with the previous …

innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export ratio given the small size of the country and its long-time EU …