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External monetary shocks and monetary integration: Evidence from the Bulgarian currency board
Minea, Alexandru; Rault, Christophe - 2011
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if … better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration of Bulgaria with the European Monetary Union (EMU). Since Bulgarian … terms of integration of Bulgaria into the EMU. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278761
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External Monetary Shocks and Monetary Integration: Evidence from the Bulgarian Currency Board
Minea, Alexandru; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if … better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration of Bulgaria with the European Monetary Union (EMU). Since Bulgarian … terms of integration of Bulgaria into the EMU. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147299
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261995
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267645
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274316
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278643
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261600
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Job Creation, Job Destruction and Employment Growth in Transition Countries in the 90's
Faggio, Giulia; Konings, Jozef - 2001
In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274457
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Self-Selection and Earnings During Volatile Transition
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261906
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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - 1999
This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable ?quasi-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262299