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Unemployment in East and West Europe
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow intounemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and inthe western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the evolution ofunemployment together with that of inflows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863008
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Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired Under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Brunello, Giorgio - 2011
Using data for 22 economies in Eastern and Western Europe, we find evidence that having studied under communism is relatively penalized in the economies of the late 2000s. This evidence, however, is limited to males and to primary and secondary education, and holds for eight CEE economies but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131924
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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies
Heineck, Guido - 2010
What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of convergence with regard to individuals' trust and risk, as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137530
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The Separation and Reunification of Germany : Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism
Becker, Sascha O. - 2020
German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in East and West Germany were far from being randomly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839058
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Children of Communism : The Former Party Membership and Demand for Redistribution
Libman, Alexander; Popova, Olga - 2022
The paper looks at the persistence of egalitarian norms in post-Communist societies by focusing on the former members of the Communist parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Russia and their children. Using the individual-level survey data, we show that there are striking differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264941
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Double-Edged Sword : Persistent Effects of Communism on Life Satisfaction
Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2022
Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to work clandestinely and gather compromising materials about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087385
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227319
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Risk, Institutions and Growth : Why England and Not China?
Greif, Avner - 2011
model incorporating England's and China's distinct pre-modern risk-sharing institutions. The model predicts a transition in … England and not China even with equal levels of risk sharing. Under the clan-based Chinese institution, the relatively risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127725
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Why are Saving Rates so High in China?
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2011
existing studies, we analyze the sources and causes of China's high and rising saving rates in the government, corporate, and … household sectors. Although the causes of China's high saving are complex, we suggest that the evolving economic, demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130462
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Why are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Gustafsson, Björn - 2010
Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent … urban areas in China are important reasons for this cross-country difference in inequality. Wage is a more non …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134822