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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 …
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. -- political economy ; post-communist transition ; economic reforms ; economic performance ; support for reforms ; public opinion …
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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...
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German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in East and West Germany were far from being randomly...
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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 …
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We examine the impact of political turnover on economic performance in a setting of largely unanticipated political change and profoundly weak institutions: the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Exploiting census-type panel data on over 7,000 manufacturing enterprises, we find that the...
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are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000 adults in six transition economies. Estimated selfemployment earnings premia … related to schooling, pre-transition family income, receipt of property in restitution, precommunist family business …
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for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or …. -- exchange rate regime ; structural reform ; panel data ; political economy of reform ; transition countries …
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Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
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transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys … collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that Kyrgyzstan, like Eastern European middle income transition economies, generally …, who were exposed to the transition during their school years, experienced a rapid decline in educational mobility. We also …
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