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. These results are interpreted as indicating that migrants’ political preferences change in the wake of migration as they …
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We propose a micro-econometric investigation into the relation between subjective life satisfaction and income distribution, using a balanced panel survey of the Russian population (RLMS), running from 1994 to 2000, including 4096 individuals. We show that in the context of the Russian very...
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, migration flows have actually been declining in the course of transition, even as inter-regional disparities have been rising. …Does migration facilitate regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks? The evidence from post-communist economies … indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter-regional unemployment and wage differentials has in fact been rather …
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central planning to a market economy. I show that the intensity of migration is low and even has fallen during the transition …In this paper, I analyze the development of inter-regional mobility in the Czech Republic during the transition from … facilitating labormarket adjustment to employment shocks. Using aggregate inter-regional migration data and survey data on past and …
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during the early years of transition in the sense that net migration rates were lower in the restricted than in the …This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the … examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium and large cities for the period 1960 through 2002. We conclude that …
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This paper presents a small macro-econometric model of Kazakhstan to study the impact of various economic policies. It uses a new approach to test the existence of a level relationship between a dependent variable and a set of regressors, when the characteristics of the regressors’...
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We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across … a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …
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We use the analogy of ecological succession as our conceptual framework. We apply this analogy to the history of foreign banks in Bulgaria and argue that the current predominance of foreign banks is unlikely to be permanent, even without government action. Foreign banks have entered Bulgaria...
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economic convergence may push up inflation rates in transition economies. Cyclical effects and regulated prices are found to be … exchange rate plays a prominent (but declining) role in transition economies. …
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This paper characterizes a key feature of the classic socialist economy and state-owned enterprise, namely that of missing markets in labor quality. Under the socialist regime in which students and workers were assigned to work units, the rights of managers to monitor and reward workers were...
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