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Creative Destruction and Transition : The Effects of Firm Entry and Exit on Productivity Growth in Estonia

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - 2004

This paper presents one of the first studies of firm demographics in Estonia, particularly, on the processes of firm … Estonia during the observed period from 1995 to 2001, resulting from low institutional entry barriers and emergence of the SME …

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Job creation and job destruction in Estonia: labour reallocation and structural changes

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - 2005

This article documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Estonia over the years 1995-2001, using a … database containing the population of officially registered firms in Estonia (all in all 52,000). Our results show that job … creation and job destruction rates have been rather high in Estonia and are comparable to the levels documented for the US. We …

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Job Growth in Early Transition: Comparing Two Paths

Jurajda, Štepán; Terrell, Katherine - 2002

planning and ask about differences in job creation across two different transition economies: Estonia, which experienced rapid …

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Ethnic dimensions of suburbanisation in Estonia

Tammaru, Tiit; van Ham, Maarten; Leetmaa, Kadri; … - 2011

use individual level Estonia Census data in order to investigate the ethnic dimensions of suburbanisation. The results …

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The Optimality and Overuse of Labour in Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises

Masso, Jaan; Heshmati, Almas - 2003

For transition economies labour market flexibility is necessary for successful restructuring and reallocation of labour force and for coping with the requirements of the European Monetary Union. In this paper we apply a novel approach to the issue of labour market flexibility in transition...

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The cliometrics of international migration: A survey

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010

This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be described as cliometric. This literature uses the concepts and approaches of applied economics to investigate a range of historical issues and there are strong parallels with the...

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How economics helped shape American Judaism

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010

This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...

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Economic history or history of economics? A review essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The story of economic genius

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011

In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to...

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Types of Spatial Mobility and the Ethnic Context of Destination Neighbourhoods in Estonia

Mägi, Kadi; Leetmaa, Kadri; Tammaru, Tiit; van Ham, Maarten - 2015

demonstrate that the two largest ethnolinguistic groups in Estonia tend to behave as 'parallel populations' and that residential … integration in Estonia is therefore slow. …

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Socio-demographic Model of Gender Gap in Expected and Actual Wages in Estonia

Vassil, Kristjan; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - 2014

Estonia ranks consistently on top of the list of countries with the largest gender pay gap. However, irrespective of …

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