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Institutions and initial conditions in transition: reconciling neo-institutional and neo-classical conceptions

Vonnegut, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Much empirical research has highlighted the importance of institutions and initial conditions in the transition to a market economy. However, relatively little is still know about how these factors directly affect growth paths. This paper explores how institutional factors and initial conditions...

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Active Labour Market Services Privided by NGOS - The Potential for Social Capital Building In Poland

Rogaczewska, Maria; Tyrowicz, Joanna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

policy in Poland and improve the quality of employment services. …

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Employment in Poland 2007: Security on flexible labour market

Bukowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr; Koloch, Grzegorz; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This Report is a third in the series Employment in Poland. It consists of four Parts, devoted to empirical analysis of … employment on Polish labor market, determinants of wages and wage inequalities in Poland; effectiveness of ALMP in Poland … countries the incidence of nonstandard employment arrangements is much lower than in Western Europe. Although Poland stands out …

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Measuring Child Poverty and Well-Being: a literature review

Roelen, Keetie; Gassmann, Franziska - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Due to the acknowledgment that children deserve special focus in poverty measurement, the measurement of child poverty and well-being has received increasing attention within the academic and policy arena. The dependence of children on their direct environment for the provision of basic needs,...

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Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality of Opportunity in Peru: Taking Advantage of the Longitudinal Dimension of Young Lives

Escobal, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Multidimensional poverty and inequality of opportunity are closely interconnected concepts. Equality of opportunity levels the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, geographical location or family background, which are beyond the control of a child, do not influence his...

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A global measurement approach versus a country-specific measurement approach – Do they draw the same picture of child poverty? The case of Vietnam

Roelen, Keetie; Gassmann, Franziska; Neubourg, Chris de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Child poverty can be measured using approaches that aim to make cross-country comparisons on a regional or global scale or to capture a country’s specific poverty context. The first can be referred to as a global approach and the second as a country-specific approach. These underlying...

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Socialist Calculation and Market Socialism

Jael, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

This paper focuses on the debate held in the twenties and thirties of the last century between libertarian economists and socialist economists, following the denial by the first ones of the feasibility of a socialist economy. This controversy is well known to specialists and has been widely...

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A Long Way to Go: The Hungarian science and technology policy in transition

Havas, Attila - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

Central European countries highlight the importance of institutions as they are of somewhat different nature in this diverse group of countries, given their different history. Briefly, before World War II there was a market economy in place in Central Europe – as opposed to most Eastern...

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Chinese statistics: classification systems and data sources

Holz, Carsten A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

China has become a popular geographic area of research. Researchers make extensive use of Chinese official statistics, but these statistics are often not well understood. This article first clarifies three major issues that affect a wide range of Chinese statistics—from output and employment...

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After 20 Years of Status Quo: The Failure of Gradualism in Slovenia’s Post-Socialist Transition

Spruk, Rok - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In the past 20 years, the Slovenia has been praised as the richest former socialist country, having accomplished the advancement from borrower into donor status at the World Bank and having entered the European Monetary Union as the first country from former socialist block. In the due course of...

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