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; Hungary ; Lithuania ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …
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During the transition toward a market economy, Russian workers have had to face important structural changes in the labour market as well as dramatic changes in their real earnings. In the process, the wage gap between men and women has varied wildly over that period. In recent years, young...
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large-scale survey of Russian manufacturing firms. -- Labour shortage ; skills ; training ; transition economies ; Russia …
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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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from Bulgaria, Russia, Kazakhstan and Serbia in 2003, we show that the return to education is heterogeneous across the …
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. Using recent data from Russia for 2000-2008, we find that the introduction of corporate governance codes in Russia had … and fiscal decentralisation ; firm performance ; predatory state ; Tobin's Q ; Russia …
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; labor market institutions ; Russia …
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Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian … explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as … lethal as commonly suggested. -- mortality ; transition ; alcohol ; Russia …
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During the period 1991-93, Finland experienced the deepest economic downturn in an industrialized country since the 1930s. We argue that the culprit behind this Great Depression was the collapse of Finnish trade with the Soviet Union, because it induced a costly restructuring of the...
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