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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 …. -- Entrepreneurship ; formal and informal sectors ; shadow economy ; institutional arrangements ; comparative studies of countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942200
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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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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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Former Communist party membership and present-day entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2019
people who joined the former ruling party tended have fewer of the traits associated with entrepreneurship such as motivation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136956
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China in light of the performance of Central and East European economies
Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007
While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), it had a more agricultural economy and a more stable political-economic system than many CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003594444
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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
We provide the first test of the Hoff and Stiglitz (2004) model predicting whether and under what conditions mass privatizations are accompanied by asset stripping. In addition to directly testing the theory, we also tackle an important policy-oriented issue of why a large number of efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226663
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Returns to skills and the speed of reforms : evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia
Fleisher, Belton M. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002094007
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Transition from plan to market, height and well-being
Adserà, Alícia; Dalla Pozza, Francesca; Guriev, Sergej; … - 2019
Using newly available data, we re-evaluate the impact of transition from plan to market in former communist countries on objective and subjective well-being. We find clear evidence of the high social cost of early transition reforms: cohorts born around the start of transition are shorter than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121301
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How transition paths differ : enterprise performance in Russia and China
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2005
We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find … with ownership or institutional factors. However, in Russia, enterprise growth is not associated with increases in factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002603928
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Returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine : a semiparametric approach to cross-country comparative analysis
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This study provides the first set of estimates of the returns to schooling over an extended period in Russia and … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the …"This study provides the first set of estimates of the returns to schooling over an extended period in Russia and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002429387