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Policy in the Pipeline : Identifying Regional Public Investment Priorities Using a Natural Experiment

Myck, Michal - 2019

We identify regional public investment priorities by studying the development of the water pipe system in the largest district in Poland. For this purpose, we take advantage of a major administrative re-form, implemented on 1 January 1999, which substantially changed the structure of Polish...

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Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country

Cesur, Resul - 2016

There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in the last two decades, triggered by the deployment of natural gas networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of this development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our...

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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 …

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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...

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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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The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000

Chiswick, Barry R.; Wenz, Michael - 2021

This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of adult male Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of Population. Comparisons are made to similar analyses using the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent...

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Employment Discrimination in a Former Soviet Union Republic : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Asali, Muhammad - 2017

We provide the first experimental evidence about ethnic discrimination in the labor market in Georgia. We randomly assign Georgian and non-Georgian, male and female, names to similar resumes and apply for jobs as advertised in help-wanted web sites in Georgia. We find that gender has no effect...

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Maternity Benefits and Marital Stability after Birth : Evidence from the Soviet Baltic Republics

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Malkova, Olga - 2023

Can a policy intervention in the stressful first year after a birth affect marital stability? We examine this question using a large expansion in maternity benefits in 1982 in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The program provided partially paid leave until the child's first...

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Comrades in the Family? Soviet Communism and Informal Family Insurance

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicinska, Anna - 2021

We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on preferences for family supports, which we refer to as 'informal family insurance'. We exploit both cross-country and cohort variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern...

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The Transatlantic Productivity Gap : Is R&D the Main Culprit?

Ortega-Argilés, Raquel - 2011

The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US can be explained not only by a lower level of corporate...

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