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How important are labor market institutions for labor market performance in transition countries?

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2009

This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional transformations. Based...

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Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries

Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo G.; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009

This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...

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Labor market institutions and informality in transition and Latin American countries

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2012

This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...

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Why populist democracy promotes market liberalization

Grosjean, Pauline; Senik, Claudia - 2008

citizens' support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268619

Reform redux: measurement, determinants and reversals

Campos, Nauro F.; Horváth, Roman - 2006

We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries … external liberalization and privatization, concentration of political power drives internal liberalization, and democracy … underpins all three. We find that FDI inflows reduce the probability of privatization reversals, labour strikes increase that of …

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Foreign direct investment and structural reforms: evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America

Campos, Nauro F.; Kinoshita, Yuko - 2008

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268588

Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004

We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving universe of manufacturing firms inherited from the Soviet Union. Employment growth displays substantial increase in heterogeneity during this transition period, with a corresponding...

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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...

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East-West Trade and Migration: The Austro-German Case

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and Eastern Europe has played an important role in this development. The derived labor market consequences are not fully clear so far. This paper presents the results of econometric...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262250

Monetary commitment and structural reforms: A dynamic panel analysis for transition economies

Belke, Ansgar; Vogel, Lukas - 2012

This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...

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