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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?
Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006
"Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375229
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The impact of the transition and EU membership on the returns to schooling in Europe
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2023
Countries across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are in their third decade of independence. What impact does this have on the skills premium and does accession to the European Union have an impact on the returns to education? The returns to education in 28 transition and 20 non-transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317713
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Shocked by therapy? : unemployment in the first years of the socio-economic transition in Poland and its long-term consequences
Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - 2018
reconstruct labour market experiences across the threshold of the socio-economic transformation from a centrally planned to a free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798238
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Do institutions, ownership, exporting and competition explain firm performance? : Evidence from 26 transition countries
Commander, Simon (contributor); Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007
"We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm's top manager's perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451842
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How important are labor market institutions for labor market performance in transition countries?
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932422
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Youth labour markets in Europe and Central Asia
O'Higgins, Shane Niall - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779951
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China in light of the performance of Central and East European economies
Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007
transformation that maintained the existing system and created new economic activities on top of it. This enabled China to avoid the … transformation depression observed in CEE and CIS, and allowed it to generate high rates of economic growth that have now lasted for … existing economic and political system rather than embarking on a rapid but incomplete economic and political transformation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003594444
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The determinants of asset stripping : theory and evidence from the transition economies
Campos, Nauro (contributor);  … - 2005
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003299971
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Entrepreneurship in transition economies : the role of institutions and generational change
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010
The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market economies. The difference is even more marked in the countries of the former Soviet Union than those of Central and Eastern Europe. We link these differences partly with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942200
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The value of business networks in emerging economies : an analysis of firms' external financing opportunities
Owolabi, Oluwarotimi; Pal, Sarmistha - 2011
The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing external finance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutions to minimize the underlying agency costs of lending. An analysis of recent BEEPS data from fifteen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307402