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Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. … of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592859
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Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271993
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The Persistence of Informality: Evidence from Panel Data
Akay, Alpaslan; Khamis, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Informality is a growing phenomenon in the developing and transition country labor market context. In particular, it is noticeable that working in an informal employment relationship is often not temporary. The degree of persistence of informality in the labor market might be due to different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369117
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China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010
Easterlin, Richard A.; Morgan, Robson; Switek, Malgorzata; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries – a U-shaped swing and a nil or declining trend. There is no evidence of an increase in life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814474
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What Is Behind Stagnant Unemployment in Ukraine: The Role of the Informal Sector
Kupets, Olga - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In recent years there has been much policy discussion of the impact of unemployment benefits and other factors on unemployment duration in developed and transition countries. This paper presents first evidence on the determinants of unemployment duration in Ukraine. Using individual-level data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761771
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Analysis of the Determinants of Fertility Decline in the Czech Republic
Klasen, Stephan; Launov, Andrey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In this paper we study the decline in total fertility rates in the Czech Republic during the transition process. To identify transition-specific features of this decline we use a multiperiod model of birth process and apply it to the family and fertility survey of 1998. In a standard duration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703601
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Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately − 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition − and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time...
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Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence
Easterlin, Richard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are positively associated. Evidence for this is found in time series data for developed countries, transition countries, and less developed countries, whether analyzed separately or pooled....
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Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy
Easterlin, Richard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well-being, economic growth in itself will not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not only in higher income nations but also in countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627841
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Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms: A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies
Belke, Ansgar; Vogel, Lukas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570785