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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth : lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2008
; Hungary ; Lithuania ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755335
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The changing intra-household resource allocation in Russia
Lacroix, Guy (contributor); Radtchenko, Natalia (contributor) - 2008
During the transition toward a market economy, Russian workers have had to face important structural changes in the labour market as well as dramatic changes in their real earnings. In the process, the wage gap between men and women has varied wildly over that period. In recent years, young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759922
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Contract violations, neighborhood effects, and wage arrears in Russia
Earle, John S. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002120369
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Stuck between surplus and shortage : demand for skills in the Russian industry
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E. (contributor);  … - 2009
large-scale survey of Russian manufacturing firms. -- Labour shortage ; skills ; training ; transition economies ; Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794064
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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 economies. The difference is even more marked in the countries of the former Soviet Union than those of Central and Eastern Europe. We link these differences partly with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942200
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Returns to education in four transition countries : quantile regression approach
Staneva, Anita; Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza; Murphy, Philip - 2010
from Bulgaria, Russia, Kazakhstan and Serbia in 2003, we show that the return to education is heterogeneous across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011538
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Does corporate governance reform necessarily boost firm performance? : recent evidence from Russia
Kuznecovs, Mihails; Pal, Sarmistha - 2012
. Using recent data from Russia for 2000-2008, we find that the introduction of corporate governance codes in Russia had … and fiscal decentralisation ; firm performance ; predatory state ; Tobin's Q ; Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537271
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Labor market adjustment : is Russia different?
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Kapeljušnikov, R. I. - 2011
; labor market institutions ; Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235191
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The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's mortality crisis
Bhattacharya, Jay; Gathmann, Christina; Miller, Grant - 2012
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian … explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as … lethal as commonly suggested. -- mortality ; transition ; alcohol ; Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580554
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The finnish great depression : from Russia with love
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Mendoza, Enrique G.; Tesar, Linda L. - 2009
During the period 1991-93, Finland experienced the deepest economic downturn in an industrialized country since the 1930s. We argue that the culprit behind this Great Depression was the collapse of Finnish trade with the Soviet Union, because it induced a costly restructuring of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831152