The South African private healthcare industry has grown since the advent of afull democracy in South Africa (UNDP, 2007 …) and research into the endconsumer choice preferences for private hospital facilities has yielded usefulinsights.This study … looks at the end consumer choice preferences of the privatehospital industry in South Africa. It is designed to aid private …

On the 1st of January 2007, Bulgaria became a member of the European Union. It is indisputable, that a well developed … market, the banks play an important role as financial intermediaries. After the first period of an almost extreme credit …, partially as a reaction to foreign competitors, who set foot on the Bulgarian market in 2001. The growth and the volume of money …

between Bulgaria and the European Union member countries for the period 1989-1998 are used in the respective regression …

Bulgaria's transition to a market economy has coincided with a large increase in wage inequality. Given the emphasis on … wage leveling in pre-transition Bulgaria, the rise in wage inequality may be due to managers rewarding more productive …, nationally representative Bulgaria Integrated Household Survey, I examine whether gender discrimination is an important factor …

The importance of analysing inflation sources and dynamics in Bulgaria is imposed by (i) the long run process of price … an attempt to estimate Balassa - Samuelson (BS) effect in Bulgaria (after the introduction of the Currency Board). The BS …

sectors in Bulgaria in the period 1998-2005 and to identify the major net creditors and net debtors. The empirical data used …

Using firm-level data from Bulgaria and Romania, this paper addresses a lacuna in the transition literature, namely … net job creation at the firm level was affected by privatization in Bulgaria, privatization in Romania did not have any … effect on firm-level employment growth. Further, Olley-Pakes (1996) decomposition indicates that in Bulgaria, over time …

-specific adjustments to regional shocks brought about in part by labour-market institutions such as guaranteed welfare income. …