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International financial integration and Real Exchange Rate long-run dynamics in emerging countries : some panel evidence

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Amor, Thouraya Hadj; Rault, … - 2009

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The dynamics of women’s labour supply in developing countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2010

that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in …

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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time : the impact of remittances on the fertility rate

Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009

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Foreign direct investment and structural reforms : evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America

Campos, Nauro (contributor); Kinoshita, Yuko (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American and 25 Eastern European countries between 1989 and 2004. Our main...

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The long-term effects of labor market entry in a recession : evidence from the Asian financial crisis

Choi, Eleanor Jawon; Choi, Jaewoo; Son, Hyelim - 2020

This study investigates the long-term effects of initial labor market conditions by comparing cohorts who graduated from college before, during, and after the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis in South Korea. We measure the overall welfare effect by examining their labor market activities, family...

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Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones?

Baptist, Simon; Teal, Francis J. - 2015

Macro analysis of the sources of income differences has produced very different results as to the importance of education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity...

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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe : an east-west comparison

Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008

This study compares the structure and determinants of inter-industry wage differentials in Eastern and Western European countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a...

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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...

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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...

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Asset stripping, rule of law and firm survival : the Hoff-Stiglitz model and mass privatization in Montenegro

Koman, Matjaž; Lakičević, Milan; Prašnikar, Janez; … - 2013

We provide the first test of the Hoff and Stiglitz (2004) model predicting whether and under what conditions mass privatizations are accompanied by asset stripping. In addition to directly testing the theory, we also tackle an important policy-oriented issue of why a large number of efficient...

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