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One potential impact of the looming EU accession of Central European economies is unemployment hysteresis working through long-term unemployment (LTU). In this paper, we explore the mechanisms of LTU by providing a detailed description of the recent rise in Czech LTU following the recession of...
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China's reform worked and produced one of the most impressive growth in the largest developing and transition economy … developing and transition economy that has great growth potential, it is not enough to study the conventional "best … initial conditions and to function as stepping stones in the transition toward the goal. Underlying China's reform is a serial …
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Exchange rate stability was defined as one of the prerequisites for monetary integration in Europe. In this paper, we analyze recent developments in the volatility of exchange rates of the Central European countries (the Visegrad Group) and a selected group of European Union countries (the...
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The purpose of this paper is to study the equilibrium real exchange rate (ERER) in 5 CEE transition economies, namely … among the 5 transition countries. …
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This paper introduces labor market transition as an intervening process by which the macro institutional transition to … so in the later phase of reform. The diversity of transition scenarios is attributed to rural-urban differences in labor …
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The objective of the paper is to analyse the nominal and real convergence process in Estonia drawing on the Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) framework. A 15-sectoral breakdown for GDP and a 5-digit level CPI data disaggregation with over 260 items is used for the period 1993:Q1 to 2002:Q1 to show that...
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Transition has entailed the introduction of policies to stimulate product market competition, to establish effective … EBRD-World Bank Enterprise survey of over 3,000 firms in 25 transition countries to test for interaction effects between …
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How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity growth? This paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual...
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Only a successful implementation of an overall reform program will enable Russian banks to provide financial intermediation and assist in the country's development from a nascent market economy to a mature financial system. The chances for reform are better now than at any time during the last...
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paper, we analyze to what extent and at what pace should transition economies carry out the K.A. liberalization process. …
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