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Inequality of access to opportunities and socioeconomic mobility : evidence from the Life in Transition Survey

Cojocaru, Alexandru - 2019

Expectations of future socioeconomic mobility are an important determinant of current policy preferences. But how may these expectations be formed? Using Life in Transition survey data for a large set of transition economies and several Western European countries, this paper examines the link...

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Old-age security in transition economies

Fox, Louise - 1994

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Effects of privatization and ownership in transition economies

Estrin, Saul; Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen; Švejnar, Jan - 2009

"The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of privatization to domestic owners are less impressive and...

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Ten years of transformation ; macroeconomic lessons

Wyplosz, Charles - 2000

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Institutions in transition : reliability of rules and economic performance in former socialist countries

Brunetti, Aymo; Kisunko, Gregory; Weder, Beatrice - 1997

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Financial services and the World Trade Organization : liberalization commitments of the developing and transition economies

Mattoo, Aaditya - 1999

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The Russian state’s size and its footprint : have they increased?

Di Bella, Gabriel; Dynnikova, Oksana; Slavov, Slavi - 2019

The short answer: The size of the Russian State has not increased much in the last few years, but its economic footprint remains significant. Concretely, the state's size increased from about 32 percent of GDP in 2012 to 33 percent in 2016, not far from the EBRD's estimate of 35 percent for...

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Taking down the wall : transition and inequality

Cevik, Serhan; Correa-Caro, Carolina - 2020

This paper investigates the main determinants of income inequality in transition countries during the period 1990 … inequality: the potential endogeneity of income growth, which is largely ignored by most empirical studies. We adopt a two … relationship between income inequality and the level of economic development. We also find that the redistributive impact of fiscal …

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New Evidenceon Fiscal Adjustment and Growth in Transition Economies

Gupta, Sanjeev - 2006

This paper analyzes the relationship between fiscal adjustment and real GDP growth in a panel of 26 transition economies during 1992-2001. Unlike most previous studies using cross-country regressions, the paper finds a positive and statistically significant relationship between fiscal adjustment...

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Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment Dynamics in Transition Economies

Garibaldi, Pietro - 1997

This paper studies interactions between labor market institutions and unemployment dynamics in transition economies. It presents a dynamic matching model in which state sector firms endogenously shed labor and private job creation takes time. Two main conclusions arises. First, higher...

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