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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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Labor markets and labor market institutions in transition economies
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2011
This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312040
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Informal employment in transition countries : empirical evidence and research challenges
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2014
Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457410
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Minding the happiness gap : political institutions and perceived quality of life in transition
Nikolova, Milena - 2015
Along with political and economic changes, the fall of the socialist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union brought about fundamental institutional reforms. Several studies have examined the causes of the increasing unhappiness which accompanied the transition process,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387030
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Reforms that keep you at home : the effects of economic transition on migration
Guzi, Martin; Mikula, Stepan - 2018
Theory asserts that individuals' migration decisions depend more on their expectations about future income levels than on their current income levels. We find that the implementation of market-oriented reforms in post-communist countries, by forming good economic prospects, has reduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810011
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Former communist party membership and bribery in the post-socialist countries
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Hinks, Timothy - 2018
We study the effect of former Communist party membership on paying bribes to public officials and motivations for bribery, 25 years after the fall of communist rule. Data come from a large representative survey, conducted in post-socialist countries in 2015/16. To deal with endogeneity, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872640
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Differential and distributional effects of energy efficiency surveys : evidence from electricity consumption
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Rustamov, Galib - 2015
household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with … but participated later. The evidence suggest that the customers who participated in the survey reduced their electricity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407824
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How ICT investment and energy use influence the productivity of Korean industries
Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Lee, Jongsu; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor … output from current production. In particular, we investigate how the ICT-energy relationship affects total factor … the allocation of public investment and support is limited. The results presented herein show that ICT/non-ICT capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339597
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Gender preferences in Central and Eastern Europe as reflected in partnership and fertility outcomes
Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika; Wowczko, Izabela - 2021
The decisions of parents following the birth of their first child concerning subsequent fertility, and the stability of their relationship can be used as a reflection of broader gender preferences. We study these decisions to identify gender preferences in six Central and Eastern European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494136
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796092