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Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the …

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Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Non-Citizens in the EU: An East-West Comparison

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The starkly different histories and institutions in the eastern and western member states of the European Union (EU) suggest different roles of being non-native in these two regions. In this paper we study the roles of foreign origin and citizenship in the comparative East-West perspective. Our...

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Temporary Labour Migration and Welfare at the New European Fringe: A Comparison of Five Eastern European Countries

Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper investigates patterns and determinants of temporary labour migration in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine after EU enlargement in 2004. Migration incidence, destination choices and migration determinants differ between poorer and better-off countries. Although broadly in...

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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...

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Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Brunello, Giorgio; Crivellaro, Elena; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Using data for 22 economies in Eastern and Western Europe, we find evidence that having studied under communism is relatively penalized in the economies of the late 2000s. This evidence, however, is limited to males and to primary and secondary education, and holds for eight CEE economies but...

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The Rise of the East and the Far East: German Labor Markets and Trade Integration

Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe – in the period 1988–2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross-regional variation in initial industry structures and use...

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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment

Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an … discriminating against female applicants. What we find is that girls are less likely to apply for a bachelor's degree in Economics to … Maths in high school and this may deter them from applying to study Economics at the university level. However, even among …

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Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Fricke, Hans; Grogger, Jeff; Steinmayr, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

, economics, or law. Due to oversubscription of business, the university assigns the field of the paper in a standardized way that … is unrelated to student characteristics. We find that being assigned to write in economics raises the probability of … majoring in economics by 2.7 percentage points, which amounts to 18 percent of the share of students who major in economics. …

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A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review

Eckstein, Zvi; Gal-Or, Esther; Gylfason, Thorvaldur; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we worked as an editorial team, the central role of the editorial office manager, how we managed to...

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How Economics Helped Shape American Judaism

Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...

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