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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies
Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...
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Hardened Budgets and Enterprise Restructuring: Theory and an Application to Romania
Coricelli, Fabrizio; Djankov, Simeon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
We identify the presence of soft budgets and analyse their impact on enterprise restructuring in Romania over the …
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Competition and Firm Performance in Transition Economies: Evidence from Firm Level Surveys in Slovenia, Hungary and Romania
Konings, Jozef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
countries, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia. The data are based on interviews taken in more than 300 state-owned, privatized and … pressure has a positive impact on firm performance in Hungary and Slovenia, but not in Romania, while in Romenia short … Romania, the results are somewhat mixed; state-owned enterprises do worse than employee-owned (privatized) and newly …
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The Enterprise Isolation Programme in Romania
Djankov, Simeon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
We provide comprehensive analysis of the isolation program for financially distressed firms in Romania. The results …
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Do the Biggest Aisles Serve a Brighter Future? Global Retail Chains and Their Implications for Romania
Javorcik, Beata; Li, Yue - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
-level data from Romania, this study examines how the presence of global retail chains affects firms in the supplying industries …
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Access to Public Capital Markets and Employment Growth
Borisov, Alexander; Ellul, Andrew; Sevilir, Merih - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper investigates the importance of accessing public capital markets through an initial public offering (IPO), and the consequent relaxation of firms’ financial constraints, for firm-level long term employment decisions. We find that firms significantly increase post-IPO investment in...
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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...
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Life Expectancy and Schooling: New Insights from Cross-Country Data
Hazan, Moshe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
I argue that distinguishing between life expectancy at birth and life expectancy beyond the crucial early childhood years affects the relationship between life expectancy and schooling in a meaningful way. In particular, I show that while the change in life expectancy at birth between 1960 and...
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The Democratic Transition
Murtin, Fabrice; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Over the last two centuries, many countries experienced regime transitions toward democracy. We document this democratic transition over a long time horizon. We use historical time series of income, education and democracy levels from 1870 to 2000 to explore the economic factors associated with...
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Maternal Health and the Baby Boom
Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Abstract U.S. fertility rose from a low of 2.27 children for women born in 1908 to a peak of 3.21 children for women born in 1932. It dropped to a new low of 1.74 children for women born in 1949, before stabilizing for subsequent cohorts. We propose a novel explanation for this boom-bust...
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