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What Do Unions Do in Times of Economic Crisis? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Veliziotis, Michail - 2015

protecting their members from the negative effects of the global economic crisis. Using data for twenty one post … lose their jobs during the crisis. This beneficial effect of trade union membership was more pronounced in countries which … were hit by the crisis harder. At the same time, union members were more likely to experience a wage reduction, suggesting …

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Trend in Energy Intensity and Carbon Performance in North Africa

Gourene, Grakolet; Hamouda, Samia Mansour; Brixiova, Zuzana - 2024

Decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation and climate change, increasing resource efficiency, and promoting both sustainable production and sustainable lifestyles is a challenge in North Africa, a region where even a relative decoupling of income growth and carbon (CO2) emissions...

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Corruption, Networking and Foreign Ownership: Recent Evidence from CEE Countries

Pal, Sarmistha - 2013

The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher host corruption will be associated with higher foreign...

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Incentive Pay and Performance: Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm

Bogaard, Hein; Svejnar, Jan - 2013

We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern HRM policies in an emerging market context. We have branch-level data and use our knowledge of the process that led to the adoption of the reforms to implement two estimators...

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Exchange Rate Volatility and Employment Growth : Empirical Evidence from the CEE Economies

Belke, Ansgar; Setzer, Ralph - 2004

According to the traditional 'optimum currency area' approach, not much will be lost from a very hard peg to a currency union if there has been little reason for variations in the exchange rate. This paper takes a different approach and highlights the fact that high exchange rate volatility may...

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Gender Equality in Educational Achievement : An East-West Comparison

Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2004

Data on educational access show gender parity of pupils attending primary and secondary schools in transition countries. The first aim of this analysis is to examine whether the gender balance in educational access translates also into gender equality in educational achievement. There are...

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Mind the gap: unemployment in the new EU regions

Ferragina, Anna Maria; Pastore, Francesco - 2005

The paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on regional unemployment during transition in Central and Eastern Europe. The focus is on Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) models and on comparison of them with the neoclassical tradition. In the typical neoclassical models, spatial...

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New labour? The impact of migration from Central and Eastern European countries on the UK labour market

Lemos, Sara; Portes, Jonathan - 2008

The UK was one of only three countries that granted free movement of workers to accession nationals following the enlargement of the European Union in May 2004. The resulting large, rapid and concentrated migration inflow can be seen as a natural experiment that arguably corresponds closely to...

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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms : Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia

Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Fleisher, Belton M.; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004

We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition economies covering a period from 1975 through 2002. Our...

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Incentive Pay and Performance: Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm

Bogaard, Hein; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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