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Returns to education in four transition countries : quantile regression approach
Staneva, Anita; Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza; Murphy, Philip - 2010
from Bulgaria, Russia, Kazakhstan and Serbia in 2003, we show that the return to education is heterogeneous across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011538
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Job creation, Job destruction and employment growth in transition countries in the 90's
Faggio, Giulia; Konings, Jozef - 2001
In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339676
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Entrepreneurship from scratch : lessons on the entry decision into self-employment from transition economies
Earle, John S.; Saková, Zuzana - 1999
This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316912
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Can economic crises be good for your diet?
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Gbakou, Monnet Benoit Patrick - 2011
With fortuitously timed data - collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria - we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235591
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Revealed informal activity
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2011
expenditure surveys. We apply this method to the case of Bulgaria using LSMS income and expenditure surveys before and after a … ; crisis ; Bulgaria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235599
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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the … context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449769
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Regional unemployment and its persistence in transition countries
Bornhorst, Fabian (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001980068
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Self-selection and earnings during volatile transition
Dimova, Ralitza (contributor); Gang, Ira N. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002072034
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External monetary shocks and monetary integration : evidence from the Bulgarian currency board
Minea, Alexandru; Rault, Christophe - 2011
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if … better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration of Bulgaria with the European Monetary Union (EMU). Since Bulgarian … terms of integration of Bulgaria into the EMU. -- currency board ; Bulgaria ; monetary shocks ; ECB interest rate ; FED …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309508
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Quasi-experimental impact estimates of immigrant labor supply shocks : the role of treatment and comparison group matching and relative skill composition
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2013
Turks from Bulgaria into Turkey in 1989. In some locations, the rise in the labor force due to this inflow of repatriates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696889