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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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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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planning and ask about differences in job creation across two different transition economies: Estonia, which experienced rapid …
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use individual level Estonia Census data in order to investigate the ethnic dimensions of suburbanisation. The results …
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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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This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...
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1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …
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1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …
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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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Estonia ranks consistently on top of the list of countries with the largest gender pay gap. However, irrespective of …
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