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During the last decade, economists have intensively searched for evidence on the importance of the Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) hypothesis in explaining nominal convergence. One general result is that B-S can at best explain only part of the excess inflation observed in the European catching-up...
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During the last decade, economists have intensively searched for evidence on the importance of the Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) hypothesis in explaining nominal convergence. One general result is that B-S can at best explain only part of the excess inflation observed in the European catching-up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128045
flows in the period of massive and rapid labor reallocation, i.e. the economic transition from a centrally planned to a …
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between democratic quality and human stature. The results indicate that the transition to democracy increased average male …
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stagnant in transition economies. Admittedly, employment equality among genders was initially much higher in transition … countries. We exploit this unique evidence from transition and advanced countries, to analyze the relationship between the … not explained away by transition-related phenomena. We argue that the ob-served divergence in time trends reflects a level …
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Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes … using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who …
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We look at the differences in regional unemployment rates in six major transition countries and their persistence over …
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The willingness to migrate and locational choice may be influenced by others? choices or plans, particularly if the ?other people?, such as family and friends, are migrants, former migrants, or potential migrants themselves. We examine the roles ?other people? play in influencing an individual?s...
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communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to … returns to education obtained during communism vs. transition; no change in wage-experience profiles over time; and similar … the planners did; all the adjustment occurred in early transition and was driven by market forces rather than private …
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A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in particular between 1989 and 1991, in some age groups by up to thirty percent. This study first examines the developments of mortality and cause of death statistics based on detailed...
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