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Employer preferences and social policy: Business and the development of job security regulations in Germany since World War I

Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - 2010

This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German Model' in the 1980s. It contrasts the varieties of capitalism approach, which sees business as...

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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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Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)

Chen, Yiu-por - 2012

This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the...

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Entrepreneurship in transition economies: the role of institutions and generational change

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market economies. The difference is even more marked in the countries of the former Soviet Union than those of Central and Eastern Europe. We link these differences partly with the...

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Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999

Earle, John S.; Spicer, Andrew; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004

question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and non-payment of wages, in Russia during …

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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

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

in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an … input index with annual industrial census data from 1985 to 2001, we find that Soviet Russia displayed low reallocation …

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The Changing Demand for Skills : Evidence from the Transition

Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - 2004

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 have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...

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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status : Evidence from Russia

Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - 2004

This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to examine the relationship between nutritional status and both longer-run household resources and short-run fluctuations in household resources. We evaluate six measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two...

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Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Stuart, Robert C.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...

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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers

Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this ?negative spillover? effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …

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