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Should Market Liberalization Precede Democracy? Causal Relations between Political Preferences and Development
Grosjean, Pauline; Senik, Claudia - 2021
reached, and whether, conversely, democratization is likely to be an obstacle to the acceptation of market liberalization. Our … study hinges on a new survey rich in attitudinal variables: the Life in Transition Survey (LITS) conducted in 2006 by the … European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank, in 28 post-Transition countries. Our identification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316944
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Income Tax Flattening : Does it Help to Reduce the Shadow Economy?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2009
This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158670
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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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What Do Unions Do in Times of Economic Crisis? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015
-socialist countries from the Life in Transition-2 survey, we find that trade union members were less likely than similar non-members to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012800
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Economic Reform, Education Expansion, and Earnings Inequality for Urban Males in China, 1988-2007
Meng, Xin - 2014
In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2007 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.27 to 0.48, a 78 per cent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069890
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Labor Market Dynamics in Romania During a Period of Economic Liberalization
Dostie, Benoit; Sahn, David E. - 2021
during this period of economic liberalization and transformation that began in 1990. Our models of labor market transitions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317282
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The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Government- and Market-Attitudes
Goff, Sandra - 2020
We study the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on college students' government- and market-attitudes using within-subject comparisons of survey responses elicited before and after the onset of the pandemic. We find that support for markets significantly declines after the onset of the pandemic, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824994
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Do Nominations Close the Gender Gap in Competition?
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa - 2021
Experiments have demonstrated that men are more willing to compete than women in stereotypically male tasks. We examine whether nominations close this gender gap. For example, are male nominators more willing than female nominators to enter nominees into competitions. Further, we consider the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314987
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Joblessness and Perceptions About the Effectiveness of Democracy
Altindag, Duha T. - 2010
Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141785
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Reform Reversal in Former Transition Economies (FTEs) of the European Union : Areas, Circumstances and Motivations
Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie E.; Székely, István P. - 2020
Former Transition Economies (FTEs). The desire for a higher standard of living, to be anchored to the West, and to enter the … institutions played a dominant role in shaping the transition process. Along with the EU accession process, the EU acted as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092625