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Economic reform and mortality in the former Soviet Union : a study of the suicide epidemic in the 1990s
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2001
Male suicide rates in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic countries increased substantially in the early 1990s and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339675
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Benchmarking structural change in transition
Raiser, Martin (contributor); Schaffer, Mark E. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001734004
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Transition fatigue? : cross-country evidence from micro data
Rovelli, Riccardo; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860717
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China in light of the performance of Central and East European economies
Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007
While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), it had a more agricultural economy and a more stable political-economic system than many CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003594444
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Echoes of the past : the enduring impact of communism on contemporary freedom of speech values
Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2023
This paper studies the long-term consequences of communism on present-day freedom of expression values in two settings - East Germany and the states linked to the sphere of influence of the former USSR. Exploiting the natural experiment of German separation and later reunification, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442619
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Double-edged sword: persistent effects of communism on life satisfaction
Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612861
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Autopsy on an empire : understanding mortality in Russia and the former Soviet Union
Brainerd, Elizabeth (contributor);  … - 2005
Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002577089
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The reallocation of workers and jobs in Russian industry : new evidence on measures and determinants
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues - including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412846
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Understanding interhousehold transfers in a transition economy : evidence from Russia
Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - 2002
-age populations in the world). Informal networks in Russia are likely to take on distinctive characteristics as the country's economic … found in much wealthier countries. Although it is often assumed that the elderly in Russia are a highly vulnerable economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413334
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Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415087