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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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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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Tenures that shook the world : worker turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 1999
flatter in Russia than and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and … private sectors do not look very different. State and private sector firms in Poland offer the same wages to new recruits, but … new private sector jobs in Russia appear to offer wage premia relative to new state jobs. We argue that these observations …
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Regional unemployment and its persistence in transition countries
Bornhorst, Fabian (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries
Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009
This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903298
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How important are labor market institutions for labor market performance in transition countries?
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2009
This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional transformations. Based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932422
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Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu Por - 2012
ineffective, and may have given the government an incentive to deregulate its subsequent labor market policy. -- rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537265
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Institutions, markets and men's and women's wage inequality : evidence from Ukraine
Ganguli, Ina (contributor);  … - 2005
major structural reforms. As in most developing economies, the "Orange Revolution" government's success will depend on its … lowering the growth in inequality, more for women than for men. Going forward, if the government wants to ameliorate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003082108
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The EU anchor thesis: transition from socialism, the institutional vacuum and membership in the European Union
Campos, Nauro - 2021
One of the strongest stylized facts of the transition is also one of the most unexpected: after 1989 Central and Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries diverged massively. Institutions are a main reason. The EU anchor thesis posits that the prospect of membership in the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012792626
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Shocked by therapy? : unemployment in the first years of the socio-economic transition in Poland and its long-term consequences
Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - 2018
market economy in Poland. These individual experiences are matched with outcomes observed in the survey about 20 years later …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798238