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Münich, Daniel (contributor); Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007

evolution of unemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies. The comparison of the transition …

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Excess leverage and productivity growth in emerging economies : is there a threshold effect?

Coricelli, Fabrizio; Driffield, Nigel L.; Pal, Sarmistha; … - 2010

The paper examines the relationship between leverage and growth in a group of emerging central and eastern European countries, who are at different levels of financial market development. We hypothesize a non-linear relationship in that moderate leverage could boost growth while very high...

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New labour? : the impact of migration from Central and Eastern European countries on the UK labour market

Lemos, Sara (contributor); Portes, Jonathan (contributor) - 2008

The UK was one of only three countries that granted free movement of workers to accession nationals following the enlargement of the European Union in May 2004. The resulting large, rapid and concentrated migration inflow can be seen as a natural experiment that arguably corresponds closely to...

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A tale of parallel integration processes : a gravity analysis of EU trade with Mediterranean and Central and Eastern European countries

Ferragina, Anna (contributor); … - 2005

Despite the EU emphasis on the 1995 Barcelona process, trade integration with the Mediterranean (MED) countries is still underdeveloped. To contrast the success of EU integration with MED countries and that with the new EU members, we compute the trade potential of these EU partners from 1995 to...

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Aggregate-level migration studies as a tool for forecasting future migration streams

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...

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Infrastructure grants and the performance of microenterprises

Chaurey, Ritam; Duong Trung Le - 2018

We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …

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How should we measure infrastructure? : the case of highways and streets

Kornfeld, Robert; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2024

The recent debates on infrastructure spending have led to renewed interest in the measurement of infrastructure and its … effects on growth and well-being. This paper updates estimates of one important type of infrastructure capital—highways and … update Fraumeni's (2007) estimates of productive stocks that are converted to wealth stocks to facilitate a comparison. These …

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Constructing BEA highways and streets net wealth stocks with detailed types of investment and engineering-based estimates of depreciation

Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Kornfeld, Robert - 2024

This paper builds on a previous paper by the authors (Kornfeld and Fraumeni, 2022) that primarily used U.S. Federal Highway Administration Highway Statistics data to disaggregate investment in highways and streets into more detailed types to produce updated estimates of net wealth stocks and...

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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career : evidence from Kosovo's school-to-work transition survey

Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2013

Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...

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Ethnicity and gender in the labour market in Central and South East Europe

O'Higgins, Shane Niall - 2013

The Roma are both the largest 'minority' ethnic group in Central and South Eastern Europe and the one which suffered most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination Directive and with the end of the 'Roma Decade'...

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