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With fortuitously timed data – collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria – we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...
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With fortuitously timed data - collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria - we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278592
The transition process has had different distributional impacts across different interest groups and countries. These … have led to differences in the support for transition. In this paper, we study support attitudes for both the economic and … political transition using data from the New Barometer Surveys for 14 transition economies from 1991 to 2004. We document that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268942
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the Russian … consumption and mortality during the campaign experienced larger transition era increases, and (3) Other former Soviet states and … explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as …
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of micro data sets from between 1980's and 2010 for both advanced market economies and economies undergoing transition … from central planning to market based system. We show that wage inequality was initially lower in transition economies and … between structural change and wages in both advanced and post-transition economies, despite the predictions from skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816522
The transition process has had different distributional impacts across different interest groups and countries. These … have led to differences in the support for transition. In this paper, we study support attitudes for both the economic and … political transition using data from the New Barometer Surveys for 14 transition economies from 1991 to 2004. We document that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004555
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian … consumption and mortality during the campaign experienced larger transition era increases, and (3) Other former Soviet states and … explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754119
transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys … collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that Kyrgyzstan, like Eastern European middle income transition economies, generally …, who were exposed to the transition during their school years, experienced a rapid decline in educational mobility. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122193
transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys … collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that Kyrgyzstan, like Eastern European middle income transition economies, generally …, who were exposed to the transition during their school years, experienced a rapid decline in educational mobility. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293114
affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii) foreign direct investment, and iii) migration. A main conclusion of the … study is that trade and capital movements are very unlikely to lead to an equalisation of factor prices. Thus, strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271831