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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 … of Soviet-Finnish trade can explain key features of Finland's Great Depression. We also show that Finland's Great … similar trade collapse. However, as a western democracy with developed capital markets and institutions, Finland faced none of …

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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 …

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Unemployment Transitions to Stable and Unstable Jobs Before and During the Crisis

Nagore Garcia, Amparo - 2014

Using administrative records data from Spanish Social Security, we analyse the pattern and the determinants of individual unemployment benefit spell durations. We compare a period of expansion (2005-2007) and the recent recession (2009-2011), allowing us to determine the impact of the current...

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China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011

The international business cycle is very important for Latin America's economic performance as the recent global crisis vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the world have altered the transmission mechanism of...

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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...

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Trade and Capital Flows : Substitutes or Complements? An Empirical Investigation

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2019

This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements (implying a positive correlation) or as substitutes (negative correlation)? Although a classic topic in international macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained...

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What Do Unions Do in Times of Economic Crisis? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015

Over the last two decades, trade union membership in Central and Eastern Europe has been in continuous decline and there is a common perception that trade unions in the region are weak. However, little is known about the actual relevance of trade unions for individual workers in the...

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Economic Reform, Education Expansion, and Earnings Inequality for Urban Males in China, 1988-2007

Meng, Xin - 2014

In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2007 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.27 to 0.48, a 78 per cent...

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A New Regional Geography of Europe? The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements

Caroleo, Floro E. - 2007

This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholars interested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union member states. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatially asymmetric impact on labour...

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Modernizing China's Growth Paradigm

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2007

China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make the economy resilient to large shocks, ensure the sustainability of its growth, and translate this growth into corresponding improvements in the economic welfare of its citizens....

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