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Persecution and Migrant Self-Selection : Evidence from the Collapse of the Communist Bloc
Abramitzky, Ran; Baseler, Travis; Sin, Isabelle - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How does persecution affect who migrates? We analyze migrants' self-selection out of the USSR and its satellite states … before and after the collapse of Communism using census microdata from the three largest destination countries: Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334422
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Russia and the Soviet Union Then and Now
Fischer, Stanley - 1992
The main focus of this paper is on the process and progress of economic reform in Russia. But I start with four historical questions that bear on the current situation. How advanced was Russia in 1913? What relevance, if any, does the New Economic Policy of the 19205, or NEP, have for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474902
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Persistence through Revolutions
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2020
Can efforts to eradicate inequality in wealth and education eliminate intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic status? The Chinese Communist Revolution in the 1950s and Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976 aimed to do exactly that. Using newly digitized archival records and contemporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482010
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Good bye Lenin (or not?) : The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences
Alesina, Alberto - 2005
after controlling for economic incentives. This effect is especially strong for older cohorts, who lived under Communism for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466972
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Book Translations as Idea Flows : The Effects of the Collapse of Communism on the Diffusion of Knowledge
Abramitzky, Ran - 2014
We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism's collapse in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458641
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Ideas Mobilize People : The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China
Bai, Ying; Jia, Ruixue; Wang, Runnan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
the New Youth magazine--the major platform to promote Communism after the Treaty of Versailles in 1919--as well as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226144
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Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?
Tella, Rafael Di - 2007
corruption, which is more widespread in poor countries, reduces more the electoral appeal of capitalism than that of socialism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465489
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State Versus Private Ownership
Shleifer, Andrei - 1998
costs must be strong. In essence, this is the case for capitalism over socialism, explaining the dynamic vitality' of free … enterprise. The great economists of the 1930s and 1940s failed to see the dangers of socialism in part because they focused on … the role of prices under socialism and capitalism and ignored the enormous importance of ownership as the source of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472146
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Pervasive Shortages Under Socialism
Shleifer, Andrei - 1991
We present a new theory of pervasive shortages under socialism, based on the assumption that the planners are self … suggests that market socialism is bound to fail even without computational complexities facing the planners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475209
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Left, Right, Left : Income, Learning and Political Dynamics
Morrow, John - 2013
The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459164