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and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this ?negative spillover? effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …
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Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most … growth of public employment in Russia appears less a result of ignorant or irresolute central management than a perverse …
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but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …
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advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …
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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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This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … cross sectional and fixed-effects models are estimated utilizing data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. The …
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The study explores how wages grow with experience in the Russian Federation. In all available cross-sectional data, the trajectory of the observed wage–experience profile is flat, peaks early, and declines sharply afterwards. This shape looks puzzling since it differs starkly from that...
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Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …
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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …
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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080