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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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The incidence and cost of job loss in a transition economy : displaced workers in Estonia, 1989-1999

Lehmann, Hartmut; Phillips, Kaia; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2002

We examine the pattern and costs of worker displacement in one of the more reform-oriented transition countries, Estonia, as the transition process develops. Using Labour Force Survey data covering the period 1989-1999, we show that after the initial shock, displacement rates in Estonia have...

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Time-varying individual risk attitudes over the Great Recession : a comparison of Germany and Ukraine

Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2015

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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Creative differences? : measuring creative economy employment in the US and UK using microdata

Kemeny, Tom; Nathan, Max; O'Brien, Dave - 2018

Using high-quality administrative microdata spanning 2011-2013, this paper develops new routines to compare creative economies using the creative trident framework, and applies them to the UK and US national and regional contexts. We find the UK creative economy is larger in workforce shares,...

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Learning from Latin America’s experience : Europe’s failure in the “Lisbon process”

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2010

The current paper investigates the cross-national relevance of Latin American "dependencia theory" for five dimensions of development (democracy and human rights, environment, human development and basic human needs satisfaction, gender justice, redistribution, growth and employment) on a global...

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The economics of international differences in educational achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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Job separations and informality in the Russian labor market

Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2011

In the years 2003-2008 the Russian economy experienced a period of strong and sustained growth, which was accompanied by large worker turnover and rising informality. We investigate whether the burden of informality falls disproportionately on job separators (displaced workers and quitters) in...

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The costs of job loss in Russia

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander; Razzolini, Tiziano; … - 2010

This paper is the first to analyze the costs of job loss in Russia, using unique new data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey over the years 2003-2008, including a special supplement on displacement that was initiated by us. We employ fixed effects regression models and propensity...

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The costs of worker displacement in urban labor markets of China

Ge, Yuhao; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2013

This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMIC) data set for the year 2009. We investigate conventional labor market outcomes upon displacement like the length of unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings....

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The incidence and cost of job loss in the Ukrainian labor market

Lehmann, Hartmut (contributor); … - 2005

We examine the effects of economic transition on the pattern and costs of worker displacement in Ukraine, using the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) for the years 1992 to 2002. Displacement rates in the Ukrainian labor market average between 3.4 and 4.8 percent of employment,...

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