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To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia … dearth of income-generating opportunities in Latvia; thus the program provided temporary employment opportunities and helped … the unemployed mitigate the impact of the crisis. However, relative to the depth of the crisis in Latvia, the Workplaces …
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countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech …, and very large in Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Our findings support the hypothesis of a negative relationship …
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We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...
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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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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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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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