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Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform : Econometric Evidence from Hungary (1986-2004)
Campos, Nauro F.; Jolliffe, Dean - 2007
How does the relationship between earnings and schooling change with the introduction of comprehensive economic reform? This paper sheds light on this question using a unique data set and procedure to reduce sample selection bias. Our evidence is from consistently coded, non-retrospective data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051631
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Determinants of Poverty during Transition:Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine
Brück, Tilman; Danzer, Alexander M.; Muravyev, Alexander; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty inUkraine during transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861147
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Evolution of Employment Protection Legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic States, 1985-2009
Muravyev, Alexander - 2010
states over the course of transition to a market economy. Rather, the dynamics of the EPL index in the region resembles an … correlated with a number of variables characterizing economic development, progress in market-oriented reforms, and political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135176
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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
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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 … (transition countries) and the World Bank (LAC countries). We find that a more regulated labor market (higher EPL) increases the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096470
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The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey : Towards a Better Understanding of Labor Markets in Transition
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2013
The paper presents the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), which is one of the most widely used household and labor force surveys in Eastern Europe. It is based on a statistically representative sample of the Ukrainian population aged between 15 and 72 years, comprising about 4,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089003
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Return Migration and Self-Employment : Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
Brück, Tilman - 2018
source countries and hence supports economic development. In this paper, we test these assertions, drawing on the Life in … Kyrgyzstan Study, a rich longitudinal data set from a transition economy with high levels of international temporary migration … findings cast doubt on the common narrative of return migration stimulating entrepreneurship and therefore economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926717
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Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Nikolova, Milena - 2016
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern histories, there is no evidence on how it affected the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001327
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Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2009
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 NATO clearly matter for institutional development. In addition … institutional development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155467
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Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia : Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009
We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality decreased during the 2000-2005 economic recovery....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158667