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and gender differences began to vary greatly across these countries. We provide the first systematic analysis of the … determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech Republic using a method that decomposes unemployment rates into transition … further examine the flows in the Czech Republic by estimating gender-specific multinomial logit models to learn which factors …
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This paper uses new micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to examine the gender gaps … started to be considered a market economy (2003). We find that the gender pay gap is higher in the top half of the … sector. The fall in the gender gap in the lower part of the distribution from 1986 to 2003 is explained partially by the …
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Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in this sector in terms of niches left from central planning and ask about differences in job creation across...
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This paper uses individual-level data to characterize economy-wide job creation and destruction during periods of massive structural adjustment. We contrast the gradualist Czech and the rapid Estonian approach to the destruction of the communist economy to provide evidence on selected...
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"Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 transition economies, the authors test for the effects of globalization through the impact of increased competition and foreign...
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