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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 market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096470
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Dynamic Ethnic Fractionalization and Economic Growth in the Transition Economies from 1989 to 2007
Campos, Nauro F. - 2009
In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL 2005) identify two main directions for future research. One is to improve the measurement of diversity and the other to treat diversity as an endogenous variable. This paper tries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153312
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Reform Reversal in Former Transition Economies (FTEs) of the European Union : Areas, Circumstances and Motivations
Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie E.; Székely, István P. - 2020
The rapid journey from central planning to EU (euro area) membership stress-tested the social learning processes of the Former Transition Economies (FTEs). The desire for a higher standard of living, to be anchored to the West, and to enter the EU, spurred major reform waves and led to the very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092625
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Differential and Distributional Effects of Energy Efficiency Surveys : Evidence from Electricity Consumption
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2016
household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with … but participated later. The evidence suggest that the customers who participated in the survey reduced their electricity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002449
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A Life-Cycle Theory Analysis of French Household Electricity Demand
Bélaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe; Massié, Camille - 2021
This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life … evidence that the income elasticity of French residential electricity demand is 0.22, averaged over our four cohorts of … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251547
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Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms : A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2012
This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099792
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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2013
We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071295
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Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2009
This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155467
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Reform Redux : Measurement, Determinants and Reversals
Campos, Nauro F. - 2006
We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic impacts. We find that GDP growth determines external liberalization and privatization, concentration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780267