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Youth Labour Markets in Europe and Central Asia
O'Higgins, Niall - 2010
Transition to the market economy in ECA opened up a range of potential opportunities for young people. It has also raised a series of challenges. Youth unemployment and joblessness have emerged as serious problems with the potentially very high costs. Formal Education and Training systems have...
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Household Survey Data for Research on Well-Being and Behavior in Central Asia
Brück, Tilman - 2012
This paper summarizes the micro‐level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household‐level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan ‐...
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Greying the Budget : Ageing and Preferences Over Public Policies
de Mello, Luiz R. - 2016
This paper looks at how individual preferences for the allocation of government spending change along the life cycle. Using the Life in Transition Survey II for 34 countries of Europe and Central Asia, we find that older individuals are less likely to support a rise in government outlays on...
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Just Like a Woman? New Comparative Evidence on the Gender Income Gap Across Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2018
I examine the incidence and determinants of the gender income gap in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine using recent household data based on an identical survey instrument across countries. Four main results are established, using a range of estimators, including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918227
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Former Communist Party Membership and Bribery in the Post-Socialist Countries
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2018
We study the effect of former Communist party membership on paying bribes to public officials and motivations for bribery, 25 years after the fall of communist rule. Data come from a large representative survey, conducted in post-socialist countries in 2015/16. To deal with endogeneity, we...
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Returns to Education in the Public and Private Sectors : Europe and Central Asia
Montenegro, Claudio E.; Patrinos, Harry A. - 2022
The returns to schooling are estimated for 28 European and Central Asian countries using the Mincerian function. Our results show that while the public sector pays on average more than the private sector, the effect of education on earnings is stronger in the private sector. However, the returns...
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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - 2021
Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...
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Why are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Gustafsson, Björn - 2010
-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers … residents in China and in urban Russia to be very similar …Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent …
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Yuan and Roubles : Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn - 2015
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to …
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Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade
Schiff, Maurice - 2010
This paper provides a different basis than previous analyses for regional bloc formation and regional migration. Due to low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage in negotiations with the rest of the world and might benefit by forming a regional bloc. The study...
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