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Youth Labour Markets in Europe and Central Asia
O'Higgins, Niall - 2010
Transition to the market economy in ECA opened up a range of potential opportunities for young people. It has also raised a series of challenges. Youth unemployment and joblessness have emerged as serious problems with the potentially very high costs. Formal Education and Training systems have...
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Household Survey Data for Research on Well-Being and Behavior in Central Asia
Brück, Tilman - 2012
, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan ‐ and of all English‐language academic papers published using these datasets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096446
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Greying the Budget : Ageing and Preferences Over Public Policies
de Mello, Luiz R. - 2016
This paper looks at how individual preferences for the allocation of government spending change along the life cycle. Using the Life in Transition Survey II for 34 countries of Europe and Central Asia, we find that older individuals are less likely to support a rise in government outlays on...
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Just Like a Woman? New Comparative Evidence on the Gender Income Gap Across Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2018
I examine the incidence and determinants of the gender income gap in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine using recent household data based on an identical survey instrument across countries. Four main results are established, using a range of estimators, including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918227
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Former Communist Party Membership and Bribery in the Post-Socialist Countries
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 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...
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Returns to Education in the Public and Private Sectors : Europe and Central Asia
Montenegro, Claudio E.; Patrinos, Harry A. - 2022
The returns to schooling are estimated for 28 European and Central Asian countries using the Mincerian function. Our results show that while the public sector pays on average more than the private sector, the effect of education on earnings is stronger in the private sector. However, the returns...
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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - 2021
Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...
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Evolution of Employment Protection Legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic States, 1985-2009
Muravyev, Alexander - 2010
former USSR - the CIS and Baltic states - over 25 years from 1985 to 2009. We use the OECD methodology (OECD EPL, version II … the former USSR with respect to firing costs were extremely rigid and were subsequently liberalized by the 15 successor … decades. By now, the ex-USSR states as a group do not differ that much from the EU-15 and OECD countries in terms of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135176
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Did Soviet Elderly Employment Respond to Financial Incentives? Evidence from Pension Reforms
Malkova, Olga - 2019
This study answers the open question of whether workers respond to financial incentives in a command economy. To do this, I evaluate pension reforms in Soviet Russia in 1964 and 1969 that allowed pensioners to receive a greater share of their pensions if they worked, resulting in a progressive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858497
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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union : An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2021
Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade … - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout … across the Soviet Union to reassess the standard of living in the USSR using these alternative measures of well-being. In the …
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