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How important are labor market institutions for labor market performance in transition countries?
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2009
the unemployment rate, which until now has been the main approach in the empirical literature. …
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The rise of the East and the Far East: German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
-oriented industries, however, experienced even stronger employment gains and lower unemployment. In the aggregate, we estimate that this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283967
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The determinants of asset stripping: theory and evidence from the transition economies
Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2005
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267582
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China in light of the performance of Central and East European economies
Svejnar, Jan - 2007
While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), it had a more agricultural economy and a more stable political-economic system than many CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269250
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Ethnic German Immigration from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to Germany: the Effects of Migrant Networks
Dietz, Barbara - 1999
This paper employed a widely accepted theoretical concept, the ?theory of migrant networks? to look at the recent immigration and absorption experience of ethnic Germans (Aussiedler) from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in Germany. Consistent with network theory, the social background...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262291
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The Distribution of Wages in Transition Countries
Newell, Andrew - 2001
This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition countries since the collapse of communism. Most countries experienced an increase in wage inequality during the initial shock of the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262471
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Shocked by Therapy? Unemployment in the First Years of the Socio-Economic Transition in Poland and its Long-Term Consequences
Myck, Michal; Oczkowska, Monika - 2018
We examine long-term implications of unemployment for material conditions and well-being using the Polish sample from … to examine their correlation with unemployment at the time of the transition. We find that becoming unemployed in the … confirm the causal effect of unemployment on income and house ownership 20 years later, but find no evidence for a long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816614
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Fiscal policy, economic integration and unemployment
Eggert, Wolfgang; Goerke, Laszlo - 2003
In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261641
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What have we learned about the employment effects of severance pay? : Further iterations of Lazear et al.
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2003
In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261645
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Gerontocracy in motion? : European cross-country evidence on the labor market consequences of population ageing
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2003
Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important issues in the nexus of population ageing and labor markets. We start from a descriptive overview of the demographic change currently shaping European societies. The subsequent section intensively discusses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261652