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Low-skilled labor migration in Tajikistan : determinants and effects on expenditure patterns

Meier, Kristina - 2014

It is often assumed that international labor migration from Tajikistan, while having no noticeable effects on investment (usually defined as medium and long-term con- sumption, such as education, or investment into housing or business), on average leads to an increase in short-term consumption,...

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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine : A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004

Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the … school graduates for Ukraine using the distributions of Russian characteristics, returns to characteristics, and …

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Public sector pay and corruption: measuring bribery from micro data

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2006

employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector … find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460 mln and 580 mln U.S. dollars (0 ….9-1.2% of Ukraine's GDP in 2003). …

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Are oligarchs productive? Theory and evidence

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Grygorenko, Yegor - 2008

This paper develops a partial equilibrium model to account for stylized facts about the behavior of oligarchs, politically and economically strong conglomerates in transition and developing countries. The model predicts that oligarchs are more likely than other owners to invest in productivity...

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Firm performance and managerial turnover: the case of Ukraine

Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr; Bilyk, Olga; … - 2009

. Overall, our analysis suggests that corporate governance in Ukraine operates with a certain degree of efficiency, despite the …

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Can state language policies distort students' demand for higher education?

Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr - 2010

This paper takes advantage of a recent policy experiment in Ukraine's secondary education system to study the effect of …

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Corporate debt maturity choice in transition financial markets

Stephan, Andreas (contributor); … - 2008

of debt structure. -- Debt maturity ; capital structure ; transition period ; Ukraine …

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Effects of foreign presence in a transition economy : regional and industry-wide investments and firm-level exports in Ukrainian manufacturing

Lutz, Stefan Heinz Hermann (contributor); … - 2006

We investigate the effects of regional and industrywide foreign presence and foreign direct investment (FDI) on export volumes of Ukrainian manufacturing firms using unpublished panel data from 19962000. Foreign presence through FDI may have negative competition effects on domestic firms'...

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Development under regulation: the way of the Ukrainian insurance market

Badunenko, Oleg (contributor); … - 2006

This study is intended to assess the introduction of increased capitalization requirements for Ukrainian insurance firms. To do so, we employ up-to-date frontier efficiency analysis The analysis suggests that an increase in size occurs not only because of the regulator's requirements, but also...

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Macroeconomic uncertainty and bank lending : the case of Ukraine

Talavera, Oleksandr (contributor); … - 2006

Our study investigates the link between bank lending behavior and macroeconomic uncertainty. We develop a dynamic model of a bank's value maximization that results in a negative relationship between loan to capital ratio and macroeconomic uncertainty. This proposition is tested using a panel of...

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