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Labor Markets and Labor Market Institutions in Transition Economies

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2011

This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121335

Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2012

This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096470

Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms : A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2012

This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099792

When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2013

We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071295

Dynamic Ethnic Fractionalization and Economic Growth in the Transition Economies from 1989 to 2007

Campos, Nauro F. - 2009

In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL 2005) identify two main directions for future research. One is to improve the measurement of diversity and the other to treat diversity as an endogenous variable. This paper tries...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153312

Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2009

This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155467

Reform Redux : Measurement, Determinants and Reversals

Campos, Nauro F. - 2006

We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries … external liberalization and privatization, concentration of political power drives internal liberalization, and democracy … underpins all three. We find that FDI inflows reduce the probability of privatization reversals, labour strikes increase that of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780267

Reform Reversal in Former Transition Economies (FTEs) of the European Union : Areas, Circumstances and Motivations

Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie E.; Székely, István P. - 2020

The rapid journey from central planning to EU (euro area) membership stress-tested the social learning processes of the Former Transition Economies (FTEs). The desire for a higher standard of living, to be anchored to the West, and to enter the EU, spurred major reform waves and led to the very...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092625

Informal Employment in Transition Countries : Empirical Evidence and Research Challenges

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2014

Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment.In the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039610

Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labor Market Adjustment?

Lamo, Ana - 2010

This paper shows that specialized education reduces workers' mobility and hence their ability to cope with economic changes. We illustrate this point using labor force data from two countries having experienced important macroeconomic turbulence; a large economy with rigid labor markets, Poland,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136774

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