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When a society overthrows a ruler - call the ruler Caesar - what determines whether Caesar is killed or enslaved? This paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power. The model pertains to societies which value ordinal...
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Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
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We analyze the effect of land reform legislation on labor market dynamics in the Romanian economy. We show that the agricultural sector, a source of precarious employment, has become an absorbing state for certain categories of workers who lost their jobs in the nonagricultural sector. A random...
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long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large size and length of the time series in the … either minority or majority stakes, ownership structures that have largely disappeared since the early 2000s, as Ukraine has …
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We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants that are valid in different stages of economic development and in a different structural context,...
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One of the most important factors that determine individuals' quality of life and wellbeing is their position in the labor market and the type of jobs that they hold. When workers are rationed out of the formal segment of the labor market against their will, i.e., the labor market is segmented,...
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Ukraine's economy lacks dynamism, and this is both the cause and the effect of people not moving across the regions … comparison with other countries. This paper examines the barriers that prevent workers from moving within Ukraine, using … Ukraine through addressing institutional bottlenecks and defines five key areas for improvement, including the population …
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This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique data set of more … connection with other evidence we infer from this that Ukraine is only at the beginning of the restructuring process. The most … ; Ukraine ; private firms ; trade …
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Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the … school graduates for Ukraine using the distributions of Russian characteristics, returns to characteristics, and …
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