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Monetary commitment and structural reforms: A dynamic panel analysis for transition economies
Belke, Ansgar; Vogel, Lukas - 2012
This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287667
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Participation Behavior of East German Women after German Unification
Bonin, Holger; Euwals, Rob - 2001
The paper studies the determinants of labor force participation by East German women after unification. To isolate the role of preferences on labor force participation from individual characteristics, we develop a panel data model that simultaneously explains participation, employment and wages....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262614
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Participation Behavior of East German Women after German Unification
Bonin, Holger; Euwals, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
The paper studies the determinants of labor force participation by East German women after unification. To isolate the role of preferences on labor force participation from individual characteristics, we develop a panel data model that simultaneously explains participation, employment and wages....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566812
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Labor market institutions and informality in transition and Latin American countries
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2012
This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291406
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284018
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Energy Consumption and Health Outcomes in Africa
BenYoussef, Adel; Lannes, Laurence; Rault, Christophe; … - 2016
between energy consumption and health indicators in Nigeria. In particular, our findings suggest that electricity consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584640
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Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis: Religion and Female Employment over Time
Fischer, Justina A.V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and along women's life cycles. Using information on 44'000 married European women from the World Values Survey 1981-2013, we find that in OECD-Europe there is little difference among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307445
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Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms: A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies
Belke, Ansgar; Vogel, Lukas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570785
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Why populist democracy promotes market liberalization
Grosjean, Pauline; Senik, Claudia - 2008
Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases citizens' support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy relies on the restriction of the sample to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268619
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How important are labor market institutions for labor market performance in transition countries?
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2009
This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional transformations. Based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271253