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Economic Crises and Mortality Among the Elderly : Evidence from Two Russian Crises
Khvan, Margarita - 2020
, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with …
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The Finnish Great Depression : From Russia with Love
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015
During the period 1991-93, Finland experienced the deepest economic downturn in an industrialized country since the 1930s. We argue that the culprit behind this Great Depression was the collapse of Finnish trade with the Soviet Union, because it induced a costly restructuring of the...
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The Changing Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Russia
Lacroix, Guy; Radtchenko, Natalia - 2021
During the transition toward a market economy, Russian workers have had to face important structural changes in the labour market as well as dramatic changes in their real earnings. In the process, the wage gap between men and women has varied wildly over that period. In recent years, young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324937
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Transmission of US and EU Economic Policy Uncertainty Shock to Asian Economies in Bad and Good Times
Balcilar, Mehmet - 2020
This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in different state of the economies. To investigate these dynamics, we use the relative tail dependence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833241
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The Great Recession of 2008-2009 : Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses
Verick, Sher - 2010
Starting in mid-2007, the global financial crisis quickly metamorphosed from the bursting of the housing bubble in the US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms of the causes, consequences and policy responses, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141781
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Motivations for Remittances : Evidence from Moldova
Piracha, Matloob - 2011
This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have … behaviour in Moldova. Drawing from these estimates, we conclude that altruism and investment (proxied by the level of economic … development at the regional level) are the two main motives behind remittance flows to Moldova …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130460
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Occupational Choice of Return Migrants in Moldova
Borodak, Daniela - 2010
in Moldova, we find that those who stayed illegally in the host country tend to go in wage employment on return to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137513
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Temporary Labour Migration and Welfare at the New European Fringe : A Comparison of Five Eastern European Countries
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2009
This paper investigates patterns and determinants of temporary labour migration in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160299
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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy : Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic
Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2014
Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political … preferences in Moldova during the following decade and was eventually instrumental in bringing down the last ruling Communist … directed both to more democratic Western Europe and to less democratic Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057913
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Health and Well-Being in the Crisis
Askitas, Nikos - 2011
The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127723