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on the unconditional, down-flow grant system in Estonia. In particular the procedure of determining the total sum of … ; Estonia …
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Banking reform has proved to be one of the most problematic elements of economic transition in central and Eastern Europe. Therefore the paper considers the development of the Estonian banking sector and derives individual banks ́fragility scores during transition. To this end we use...
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The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered … opportunities. -- labour market reforms ; search model ; Estonia ; OECD countries …
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a defined-benefit first pillar and iv) how does Estonia's temporary decrease in pension contributions compensated by …
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The literature on return migration includes several studies on the impact of foreign work experience on the returnees ́earnings or their decision to become self-employed; however in this paper we analyze the less studied effect on occupational mobility, i.e. how the job in home country after...
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evidence. In 2004, Estonia joined the European Union, which mandated that it withdraws from its FTA with Ukraine ("Uxit … panel estimations that trade volumes between Estonia and Ukraine fell by more than 20%. We find that withdrawing an FTA …
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increases from the tradable to the non-tradable sector and to cause real wages to increase beyond productivity increases. Panel … productivity increases in Greece. …
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Recent theoretical research shows that exporters are more productive than nonexporters. We show that this result holds almost trivially for the case of constant marginal cost of production, as mainly assumed in the literature, but it may not hold true if the marginal cost is not constant. Our...
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Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the … real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample … argue that changes in trade costs over time may affect the impact of productivity on the real exchange rate over time. We …
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