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Can economic crises be good for your diet?
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Gbakou, Monnet Benoit Patrick - 2011
With fortuitously timed data - collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria - we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...
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Wage inequality and structural change
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Smyk, Magdalena - 2017
of micro data sets from between 1980's and 2010 for both advanced market economies and economies undergoing transition … from central planning to market based system. We show that wage inequality was initially lower in transition economies and … between structural change and wages in both advanced and post-transition economies, despite the predictions from skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785673
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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 Surveys for 14 transition economies from 1991 to 2004. We document that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860717
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Double-edged sword: persistent effects of communism on life satisfaction
Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2021
Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to work clandestinely and gather compromising materials about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612861
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Eastern enlargement and EU-labour markets : perceptions, challenges and opportunities
Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2001
affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii) foreign direct investment, and iii) migration. A main conclusion of the … study is that trade and capital movements are very unlikely to lead to an equalisation of factor prices. Thus, strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391753
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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
. Econometrically, we present the first study to look at firms that disappeared during a mass privatization transition, improving upon …
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Intangible knowledge capital and innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam Nicholas - 2013
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises - more so in domestically owned than in...
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Corruption, networking and foreign ownership : recent evidence from CEE countries
Pal, Sarmistha - 2013
The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher host corruption will be associated with higher foreign...
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The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
channels for this relationship highlight the joint importance of demographic transition, education investment, and structural …
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China's lesser known migrants
Quheng, Deng (contributor); Gustafsson, Björn (contributor) - 2006
In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas. Using large surveys for 2002, we find that permanent migrants number about 100 million persons and constitute approximately 20 percent of all urban residents. Receiving a long...
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