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country samples and second, in more detail, with Brazil and Poland. Our results provide strong evidence that Russia … entrepreneurial development in Russia. We utilize Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001 and 2002 to investigate … the effects of the weak institutional environment in Russia on entrepreneurship, comparing it first with all available GEM …
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real exchange rate misalignments for Poland and Russia during the 1990s using the Beveridge and Nelson (1981) decomposition … crisis. The half life of an exogenous shock is found to be much shorter for Poland than for Russia in the pre-crisis period … generate different levels of misalignment and different responses to exogenous shocks. The average misalignment in Russia is …
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Longitudinal data from interviews with Poles of working age conducted in 1988, 1993 and 1998 present a detailed view of the transition from a state dominated to a market economy. Job loss in state firms and job creation in new private firms are the dominant employment change, other than...
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Poland's economic and political transition, one of the most successful transitions, has depended very heavily on the …
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, private sector initial public offerings and the mass privatization program in Poland over the first eight years after the …
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We analyse the unemployment benefit regime change that occurred in Poland in December 1991 using data from the Polish … the long durations of unemployment in Poland, although the generous eligibility criteria may have contributed to the …
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We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
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This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed matching procedure and demonstrate...
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This paper presents an empirical investigation of the disequilibrium hypothesis on the Polish loan market in the 1990s. Using data over this period of deep transition, we estimate a disequilibrium model with a standard maximum likelihood method. However, the estimates are highly...
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This study proposes an extension to the inflation targeting framework for Poland that takes into consideration the …
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