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Poland : The Social Safety Net During the Transition
Maret, Xavier - 1993
This paper argues that the brunt of the reform-induced increase in Polish social expenditures has been borne by social insurance arrangements (mainly pensions and unemployment compensation) rather than by social assistance schemes targeted to the poor or more temporary social safety net schemes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398129
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Social Sector Reform in Transition Countries
Keller, Christian - 2001
During the transition process, many existing social sector institutions and policies were significantly eroded and their underlying character changed. As a result, they often do not redistribute to the poorest, nor generally serve the role of facilitating economic change. Social sector reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403835
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Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Net Schemes for Economies in Transition
Paull, Gillian - 1991
Inspired by the current Polish economic restructuring program, this paper attempts to develop a general income support scheme that could serve as a model to alleviate poverty in developed economies in the transitional phase. The proposed scheme has the advantage that no part of the poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396456
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Inflation in Poland : How Much Can Globalization Explain?
Allard, Céline - 2007
This paper analyses how globalization has affected inflation in the New EU Members States (NMS), and Poland in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400725
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Consumption and Income Inequality in Poland During the Economic Transition
Prasad, Eswar - 1999
This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income inequality in Poland increased substantially following the …
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Changes in the Structure of Earnings During the Polish Transition
Prasad, Eswar - 2002
This paper documents that inequality in labor earnings increased substantially during the economic transition in Poland … that even state-owned enterprises in Poland moved toward competitive wage setting during the transition. Education premia …-group inequality in Poland were very different across skill groups, with much larger increases for highly educated workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403669
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Inequality, Transfers and Growth : New Evidence From the Economic Transition in Poland
Prasad, Eswar - 2000
This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that inequality in Poland increased markedly during the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399835
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Do Asset Prices in Transition Countries Contain Information About Future Economic Activity?
Sløk, Torsten - 2000
, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, and Slovenia for the period 1994-1999 it is shown that historical values for interest rates …
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Structural and Macroeconomic Determinants of the Output Decline in Poland : 1990-91
Ostry, Jonathan David - 1992
This paper addresses two questions relating to the output decline in Poland since the initiation of market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397090
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The Role of Labor Market Rigidities During the Transition : Lessons From Poland
Pujol, Thierry - 1996
behavior. In Poland, empirical evidence suggests that relative wage rigidity contributed to lower employment and output, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398098