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The transition process has had different distributional impacts across different interest groups and countries. These … have led to differences in the support for transition. In this paper, we study support attitudes for both the economic and … political transition using data from the New Barometer Surveys for 14 transition economies from 1991 to 2004. We document that …
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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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for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or …. -- exchange rate regime ; structural reform ; panel data ; political economy of reform ; transition countries …
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satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries - a U-shaped swing and a nil or declining trend … ; happiness ; life satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; transition countries ; China …
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This paper analyzes the migration behavior of ethnic groups in the former Soviet Union (FSU) from 1989 to 1999. The two main migration movements have been return migration of ethnic groups to their titular nation and migration of all ethnic groups to the Russian Federation. Using factor...
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estimated. -- reform : liberalization ; privatization ; political economy ; transition …
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the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 … institutional development. -- EU ; NATO ; transition economies ; institutional change ; governance …
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documents the evolution of labor market institutions and policies in the transition region. The data show a clear trend towards … institutions ; unemployment ; transition economies …
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study hinges on a new survey rich in attitudinal variables: the Life in Transition Survey (LITS) conducted in 2006 by the … European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank, in 28 post-Transition countries. Our identification …
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In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL 2005) identify two main directions for future research. One is to improve the measurement of diversity and the other to treat diversity as an endogenous variable. This paper tries...
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