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Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income

Andrienko, Yuri - 2014

The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...

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Seriously Strengthening the Tax-Benefit Link

Portugal, Pedro - 2015

On January 1st 1994 Portugal introduced, for the first time, inflation indexation in the old-age pension formula. This change considerably decreased the uncertainty regarding the perception of the link between the stream of labor earnings and future pensions. The effect of indexation was large...

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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 … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that …

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Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?

Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2011

With fortuitously timed data collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria, we revisit …

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Revealed Informal Activity

Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2011

expenditure surveys. We apply this method to the case of Bulgaria using LSMS income and expenditure surveys before and after a …

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Where to Work? The Role of the Household in Explaining Gender Differences in Labour Market Outcomes

Dimova, Ralitza D.; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2021

explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal …

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Labor Market Adjustment : Is Russia Different?

Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E. - 2015

The paper discusses how the Russian labor market has been evolving over two decades of the transition. It starts with tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages. Their dynamics indicate that the labor market...

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The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis

Bhattacharya, Jay - 2012

Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian … explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as …

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Does Corporate Governance Reform Necessarily Boost Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from Russia

Kuznecovs, Mihails - 2012

. Using recent data from Russia for 2000-2008, we find that the introduction of corporate governance codes in Russia had … from high central taxes, which may also induce some businesses to go underground, thus harming firm performance …

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Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies : The Role of Institutions and Generational Change

Estrin, Saul - 2010

The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market economies. The difference is even more marked in the countries of the former Soviet Union than those of Central and Eastern Europe. We link these differences partly with the...

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