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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital : Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women

Blau, Francine D. - 2011

In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...

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Education and Unemployment of Women

Mincer, Jacob - 1991

The more education, the less unemployment of women; this relationship is as strong as it is in the male labor force. The channel through which this relation arises is also the same, namely, labor turnover, almost half of which involves unemployment. However, the relation between education and...

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Inflation Targeting in Transition Countries : Experience and Prospects

Jonas, Jiri - 2003

Hungary. While the examined countries have missed inflation targets often by a large margin, they nevertheless progressed well …

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Household Savings in Transition Economies

Denizer, Cevdet - 1998

Based on matching household surveys for three central European countries, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland, we explore the …

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On the Speed of Transition Central Europe

Aghion, Philippe - 1994

Transition in Central Europe is four years old. State firms which dominated the economy are struggling with market forces. A new private sector quickly emerged and has taken hold. Unemployment, which did not exist, is high and still increasing. Will this process of transition accelerate, or slow...

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What Directions for Labor Market Institutions in Eastern and Central Europe?

Freeman, Richard B. - 1992

Poland, Hungary. and Czechoslovakia and develop a model of changing support for reforms during the transition to a market … massive vacancies. The dispersion of wages increased substantially in Hungary and Poland though not in Czechoslovakia. My …

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Foreign Trade in Eastern Europe's Transition : Early Results

Rodrik, Dani - 1992

By the end of 1991, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland have achieved a substantial degree of openness to foreign trade … impressive in all three countries, and import booms are under way in at least Hungary and Poland as well. However, there is no …-8 percent of GDP in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Export performance is attributable to exchange-rate policy in part, but the …

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Privatization in East European Transformation

Fischer, Stanley - 1991

privatization, with emphasis on Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Progress in privatizing small firms has been rapid in several … East European countries, but privatization of large firms has been slow, with most success to date in Hungary …

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Technological Progress and Economic Transformation

Greenwood, Jeremy - 2004

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The Transition in East Germany : When is a Ten Point Fall in the Gender Wage Gap Bad News?

Hunt, Jennifer - 1997

Since monetary union with western Germany on 1 July 1990, eastern female monthly wages have risen by 10 percentage points relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the years 1990-1994, I...

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