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Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export...
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-2011), allowing us to determine the impact of the current crisis. In line with the duality that characterizes the Spanish labour … Proportional Hazard Model for each time period.We find similar effects of the crisis for stable and unstable jobs, which are … financial crisis tend to be males, those aged 16-24 and 40-51 years, those living in regions with higher unemployment rates …
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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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and post 1998 financial crisis periods. The parameters of the sharing-rule indicate that the households have shifted to a …
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turbulence; a large economy with rigid labor markets, Poland, and a small open economy with increased flexibility, Estonia. We …. Quantitative exercises suggest that the over-specialization of the labor force in Poland led to much higher and persistent …
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reconstruct labour market experiences across the threshold of the socio-economic transformation from a centrally planned to a free … market economy in Poland. These individual experiences are matched with outcomes observed in the survey about 20 years later … confirm the causal effect of unemployment on income and house ownership 20 years later, but find no evidence for a long …
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On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local … inclusiveness in the process of development is likely to be an important factor behind the stability of Poland's administrative …
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Recent studies show that firms are playing an increasingly important role in shaping wage inequality in advanced economies. We contribute to this literature by analysing wage inequality patterns and their firm dimension in Central and Eastern European countries. We use large, linked...
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return data to reevaluate distributional consequences of the post-socialist transition in Poland. Our approach results in the … that over the last three decades Poland has become one of the most unequal European countries among those for which top …-corrected inequality estimates exist. The highest-income earners benefited the most during the post-socialist transformation: the annual …
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flatter in Russia and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and … private sectors do not look very different. State and private sector firms in Poland offer the same wages to new recruits, but … of a continued job match unsure, offset, in Poland at least, by insider resistance to layoffs …
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