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Hosseini, Roozbeh; Kopecky, Karen A.; Zhao, Kai - 2021

Using a dynamic panel approach, we provide empirical evidence that negative health shocks reduce earnings. The effect is primarily driven by the participation margin and is concentrated in less educated individuals and those with poor health. We build a dynamic, general equilibrium, life cycle...

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Wage growth and inequality change during rapid economic transition

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2006

East Germany, a unique socialist command economy prior to the 1990s, underwent rapid transition to a market …-oriented economic system. This transition has been of intense interest given the environment of Eastern Germany vis-a-vis Western … Germany, a setting different from most other transition economies. However, changes in the Eastern wage structure during …

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A note on poverty in Kosovo

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2005

Kosovo is a war-torn corner of the former Yugoslavia, where a civil war between ethnic Albanians and ethnic Serbs raged during most of the 1990s. We examine the incidence and depth of poverty and some of its correlates in post-conflict Kosovo using the Living Standards Measurement Survey.

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Ethnic conflict and economic disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2006

Using the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household survey from post-conflict Kosovo we investigate the comparative economic well-being of Serbs and Albanians. An Oaxaca decomposition shows Serb households are both better endowed with income generating characteristics, such as...

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Leaving Home and Entering Service: The Age of Apprenticeship in Early Modern London

Wallis, Patrick; Webb, Cliff; Minns, Chris - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

Leaving home and entering service was a key transition in early modern England. This paper presents evidence on the age …

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Reconstructing the Industrial Revolution: Analyses, Perceptions and Conceptions Of Britain’s Precocious Transition to Europe’s First Industrial Society

Riello, Giorgio; O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The Industrial Revolution continues to be analysed by economic historians deploying the conceptual vocabularies of modern social science, particularly economics. Their approach which gives priority to the elaboration of causes and processes of evolution is far too often and superficially...

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Economic transition, dualism, and informality in India

Kesar, Surbhi - 2019

"/agricultural/informal to "modern"/industrial/formal sectors. Such transitions are usually accompanied by a transition in the economic …

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Self-employment and wage earning: Hungary during transition

Co, Catherine Y.; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or non-working for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs for workers only....

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Social capability, history and the economies of Communist and post-Communist states

Iliev, Peter; Putterman, Louis - 2005

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Monetary Union: European Lessons, Latin American Prospects

Hochreiter, Eduard; Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus; Winckler, Georg - 2002

In this paper selective issues of long-run sustainability of monetary unions are analyzed. Using theoretical insights and the experience of EMU up to now we argue that empirical evidence on OCA criteria for EMU suggests that benefits for the countries participating in EMU outweigh costs by a...

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