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This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional transformations. Based...
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Transition to the market economy in ECA opened up a range of potential opportunities for young people. It has also raised a series of challenges. Youth unemployment and joblessness have emerged as serious problems with the potentially very high costs. Formal Education and Training systems have...
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A common finding of the migration literature is that migrants are more likely to choose self-employment upon return to their origin countries than non-migrants. This has led to the belief that return migration stimulates entrepreneurship in source countries and hence supports economic...
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This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...
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Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to work clandestinely and gather compromising materials about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. We...
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Past trauma resulting from personal life shocks, especially during periods of particular volatility, such as regime transition (or regime change), can give rise to significant long-lasting effects on people's health and well-being. We study this question by drawing on longitudinal and...
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- East Germany and the states linked to the sphere of influence of the former USSR. Exploiting the natural experiment of …
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, those who have come from Afghanistan, and examined how it has gone for them to establish themselves in the labour market in …
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-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR … distributions suggest that policy analyses relying solely on OLS estimates may be misleading. -- Afghanistan ; food prices ; wheat …
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sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increases enrollment … reduces the disparity in test scores. The intervention increases formal school enrollment by 42 percentage points among all …). -- Afghanistan ; RCT ; education ; gender …
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