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Switching Models with Self-Selection: Self-Employment in Hungary
Gang, Ira N.; Co, Catherine Y.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999
transition from socialism to greater market orientation. We adopt a (full information) MLE methodology in addition to Heckman …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334363
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The Influence of Others on Migration Plans
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
The willingness to migrate and locational choice may be influenced by others? choices or plans, particularly if the ?other people?, such as family and friends, are migrants, former migrants, or potential migrants themselves. We examine the roles ?other people? play in influencing an individual?s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261996
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266345
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266358
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277296
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318374
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Switching models with self-selection : self-employment in Hungary
Gang, Ira N.; Co, Catherine Yap; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999
transition from socialism to greater market orientation. We adopt a (full information) MLE methodology in addition to Heckman …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577307
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A Note on Poverty in Kosovo
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2006
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839041
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Wage Growth and Inequality Change During Rapid Economic Transition
Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839088
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Ethnic Conflict and Economic Disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839102