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Economic Reform, Democracy and Growth during Post-Communist Transition

Fidrmuc, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

also when controlling for possible endogeneity of liberalization in growth. (2) Democracy encourages liberalization … - countries which introduced greater democracy subsequently progress further in economic liberalization too. (3) Because of its … reinforcing effect on liberalization, democracy has a positive overall impact on growth. Nevertheless, the marginal effect of …

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Education and the Transition to Sustained Democracy

Cuaresma, Jesus Crespo; Oberdabernig, Doris A. - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department … - 2014

We study empirically the role of education, age structure and other socioeconomic factors as a determinant of the transition to stable democratic regimes. Our findings suggest that educational improvements (in particular in primary education) and policies towards reducing inequalities in...

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Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence

Feng, Yi - The MIT Press

, specifically, the controversial question of the relationship between democracy and quality of life. Feng systematically studies … theory and country-specific case studies, Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance demonstrates that political … the direct effects of the three key political variables on economic growth and the indirect effects of democracy in terms …

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Punishment Without Crime? Prison as a Worker-Discipline Device

Miller, Marcus; Smith, Jennifer C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

An ‘efficiency wage’ model developed for Western economies is reinterpreted for Soviet Russia assuming that it was the Gulag not unemployment that acted as a ‘worker-discipline device’. Archival data now available allows for a basic account of the dynamics of the Gulag to be estimated....

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Gender and occupational wage gaps in Romania: from planned equality to market inequality?

Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) - 2014

In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equal opportunities and treatment for...

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A kiigazítás - ahogy én látom

Antal, László - In: Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the … XLV (1998) 2, pp. 97-122

A tanulmány célja az 1995 márciusában megkezdett és napjainkban sem lezárult stabilizációs program tényszerű értékelése, továbbá azoknak a máig is gyakori felvetéseknek, kritikáknak az áttekintése, rendszerzése, érvelésük lényegének megragadása, amelyek alapjaiban...

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Csaba László (szerk.): Privatization, Liberalization and Destruction: Recreating the market in Central and Eastern Europe. Dartmouth Publishing Co., Andershot (Anglia) és Brookfield (Egyesült Államok), 1994, IX + 330 oldal

Dallago, Bruno - In: Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the … XLII (1995) 10, pp. 989-990

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Mérlegen a rendszerváltás 25 éve

Mihályi, Péter - In: Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the … LXI (2014) 7, pp. 898-922

1989-ben a Föld 36 országát marxista-leninista pártok irányították. Ma már csak Észak-Koreát és Kubát. Ez világtörténelmi jelentőségű változás, amelynek Magyarország is részese volt. A Kelet-Európában és a Szovjetunióban 1989-1990-ben végbement változások 25....

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On the Desirability of Big-Bang Reforms.

Katz, B.G.; Owen, J. - Economics Department, Stern School of Business - 1996

We consider the model introduced by Dewatripont and Roland (1995) to stufy the desirability of big-bang versus gradualist reform packages for economies in transition.

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State Capture and Controlling Owners of Firms

Yakovlev, Evgeny; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), New … - 2004

How does the effect “state capture” depend the identity of the captor? We use a dataset on preferential treatment of selected firms by regional legislature and regulatory agencies in transitional Russia to show that the most effective and the least benign captors are “federal oligarchs”...

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