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evolution of unemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies. The comparison of the transition …
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the transition. The Czech Republic and Hungary have had some success moving into the production and export of more …
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Transition economies have an initial condition of high human capital relative to GDP per capita, giving them high … economics from transition economics. …
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In this paper we re-examine empirically the Structure-Conduct-Performance relationship between concentration and profitability using new data on Russia that allow us to overcome the endogeneity problem of market structure and expand on the traditional analysis in several ways. The analysis...
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Barter in Russia can be explained by firms' liquidity constraint: it is strongly correlated with financial tightness. However, a microeconomic analysis reveals that the rationale behind this liquidity constraint is different according to the firm situation. For firms in a good economic...
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infrastructure to the transition process. In addition to the direct cost savings, infrastructure investment generates important … indirect effects, or transition impacts. The model shows that, by reducing transaction costs, infrastructure intensifies … importance of these transition impacts of infrastructure depends on features of the economy, such as the degree of cost asymmetry …
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The paper analyses the transition in Russia through a theoretical model in which job-to-job mobility plays a crucial …
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In this paper we analyse job flows in five transition countries: Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania. Using … comparable firm level data over the years 1993-1997, we find that in early transition job destruction dominates job creation …, while the latter is picking up as the country enters into a mature stage of transition. Gross job reallocation rates in the …
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European transition economy, yet one might have expected the east German transition to have been the most successful. I seek …
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This paper uses longitudinal survey data to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment in Russia. We examine four types of marginalised labour force participants, according to ILO guidelines and survey responses, and we estimate duration models for each type. It turns out that the...
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