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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the … context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that …
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Regional unemployment and its persistence in transition countries
Bornhorst, Fabian (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Job creation, Job destruction and employment growth in transition countries in the 90's
Faggio, Giulia; Konings, Jozef - 2001
In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria … and Romania. Using comparable firm level data over the years 1993- 1997, we find that in early transition job destruction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339676
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Job market outcomes of IDPs : the case of Georgia
Torosyan, Karine; Pignatti, Norberto; Obrizan, Maksym - 2018
Internally displaced people (IDPs) constitute a serious economic, social and cultural problem for many countries, including countries in transition. Despite the importance of the problem, there are only a handful of previous studies investigating the issue of labor market outcomes of IDPs. We...
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Are parental welfare work requirements good for disadvantaged children? : evidence from age-of-youngest-child exemptions
Herbst, Chris M. - 2014
This paper assesses the short-run impact of first-year maternal employment on low-income children's cognitive development. The identification strategy exploits an important feature of the U.S.'s welfare work requirement rules - namely, age-of-youngest-child exemptions - as a source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408828
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Can welfare conditionality combat high school dropout?
Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016
Based on administrative data, we analyze empirically the effects of stricter conditionality for social assistance receipt on welfare dependency and high school completion rates among Norwegian youths. Our evaluation strategy exploits a geographically differentiated implementation of...
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Making activation for young welfare recipients mandatory
Dahl, Espen; Hernæs, Øystein - 2022
Activation policies to promote self-sufficiency among recipients of welfare and other types of benefits are becoming more common in many welfare states. We evaluate a law change in Norway making welfare receipt conditional on participation in an activation program for all welfare recipients...
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Unintended consequences of welfare reform: evidence from birth outcomes of Aboriginal Australians
Doyle, Mary-Alice; Schurer, Stefanie; Silburn, Sven - 2020
Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers on essentials (e.g. food, housing). We estimate income management's impact on birth outcomes by exploiting its staggered rollout. By changing parents' consumption patterns, the...
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Reform redux : measurement, determinants and reversals
Campos, Nauro (contributor); Horváth, Roman (contributor) - 2006
We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic impacts. We find that GDP growth determines external liberalization and privatization, concentration...
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Transition fatigue? : cross-country evidence from micro data
Rovelli, Riccardo; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2009
The transition process has had different distributional impacts across different interest groups and countries. These have led to differences in the support for transition. In this paper, we study support attitudes for both the economic and political transition using data from the New Barometer...
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