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In this article, I compare personal networks of Chinese and Russian entrepreneurs in terms of network structure, relationships and resources accessed in networks. The Chinese data is composed of longitudinal phone interviews with 94 Internet entrepreneurs in Beijing, and the Russian data is...
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network members on product development, and revenue growth of software ventures in China and Russia. The empirical data are … knowledge heterogeneity on product diversity and revenue growth over time are more salient in Russia due to the unique …
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a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …
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contexts of China and Russia. Using interview data of 159 software entrepreneurs in Beijing and Moscow, the study found that …
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Using Demographic and Health Surveys, government statistics, and field observations I examine trends in infant and child health in Uzbekistan, Kazakstan and the Kyrgyz Republic. Health indicators (anemia and marked low weight for age) for the population under the age of 3 are examined...
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This paper reports the first empirical evidence that fiscal reform efforts in transition countries have positive effects. Using the EBRD BEEPS I and II data, reported in 1999 and 2002, rigorous econometric models are estimated showing that the share of bribes paid to tax collectors is reduced in...
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unemployed workers in transitional Russia. We use pooled data from rounds 5-9 of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS … areas of Moscow and St. Petersburg varies substantially from the behavior of workers living in other regions of Russia. The … most frequently used search strategy in Russia, as in other countries, is contacting friends and relatives for job leads. …
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, Poland, Hungary and Russia during the late 1980s to the early 1990s. The four main findings are: 1) There is evidence of some … of demand grew over the transition, starting from zero in Russia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia and from sizeable … similar and those for Russia had not changed significantly; 3) Once other factors are controlled for, there is no significant …
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Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade – sometimes rapidly – from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic...
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employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …
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