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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099790
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106948
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Labor Market Adjustment : Is Russia Different?
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038147
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146838
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The Finnish Great Depression : From Russia with Love
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749800
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Tenures that Shook the World : Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2021
flatter in Russia and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and … new private sector jobs in Russia appear to offer wage premia relative to new state jobs. We argue that these observations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321340
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The Changing Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Russia
Lacroix, Guy; Radtchenko, Natalia - 2021
During the transition toward a market economy, Russian workers have had to face important structural changes in the labour market as well as dramatic changes in their real earnings. In the process, the wage gap between men and women has varied wildly over that period. In recent years, young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324937
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Chinese Unions and Enterprises Performance
Fang, Tony - 2014
This paper uses the national firm level survey data to investigate the effects of Chinese unions on firm performance. We show that Chinese unions have a strong "State-Party voice" face and a "collective voice" face but lack of "monopoly" face. The government influence plays an important role in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061050
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The Effects of Aging on Migration in a Transition Economy : The Case of China
Bodvarsson, Orn B. - 2010
China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily …. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139933
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Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu Por - 2012
This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106945