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The gender gap in early career in Mongolia

Pastore, Francesco - 2009

Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271285

"I wish i had 100 dollars a month ...": The intergenerational transfer of poverty in Mongolia

Pastore, Francesco - 2012

survey carried out in 2006 in Mongolia, one of the 50 poorest countries of the world. A young person born in a household …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282397

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

a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …

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Re-orient? MNC penetration and contemporary shifts in the global political economy

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...

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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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