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Inequality in transition countries: The contribution of markets and government taxes and transfers
Giammatteo, Michele - 2006
This paper examines inequality patterns in the 1990s in Poland, Russia and Hungary. We consider three different … definitions of income and analyse the contributions to inequality of their main components using LIS micro data. Inequality is … Shorrocks' axiomatic approach and the Theil-based decomposition). The role of transfers and taxes in mitigating total inequality …
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Are the Baltic countries ready to adopt the Euro?: a generalised purchasing power parity approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Ciferri, Davide; Girardi, … - 2008
This paper focuses on macroeconomic interdependencies between the Euro area and three transition economies (Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia), with the aim of establishing whether the latter are ready to adopt the Euro. The theoretical framework is based on the Generalised Purchasing Power Parity...
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Non-discretionary monetary policy: The answer for transition economies?
Mafi-Kreft, Elham; Kreft, Steven F. - 2004
It is a well-established fact that monetary institutions help shape the macroeconomic environment of countries by stabilizing prices. In the early 1990s, transition economies had the opportunity to rearrange their monetary institutions to better achieve low levels of inflation. Those economies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301136
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Why are Eastern Europe's banks not failing when everbody else's are?
Weller, Christian E.; Morzuch, Bernard - 1999
While the South East Asian financial crisis spread to Russia and Brazil, the transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe seem to be largely unaffected by international financial contagion. The lack of recent banking crises in Central and Eastern Europe is the more surprising considering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301271
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Azerbaijan Transport Sector 2011
Tochitskaya, Irina - 2012
The report evaluates progress achieved in implementation of structural reforms of the transport sector in Azerbaijan in the following subsectors: railways, road transport and roads, air transport and airports, maritime transport and ports. It presents standardized and qualitative indicators that...
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In search of opportunities? The barriers to more efficient internal labor mobility in Ukraine
Koettl, Johannes; Kupets, Olga; Olefir, Anna; Santos, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014), pp. 1-28
Ukraine's economy lacks dynamism, and this is both the cause and the effect of people not moving across the regions. The rate at which Ukrainians move from one region to another within the country is only half of what would be expected in comparison with other countries. This paper examines the...
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Tackling enterprises operating in the informal sector in developing and transition economies: a critical evaluation of the neo-liberal policy approach
Williams, Colin C. - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 2 (2014) 1, pp. 1-17
Over the past decade or so, there has been widespread recognition that a large and growing proportion of the global workforce is employed in informal sector enterprises. To explain this, neo-liberals contend that enterprises operate in the informal sector due to high taxes, public sector...
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Monetary Policy Transmission, Interest Rate Rules and Inflation Targeting in Three Transition Countries
Golinelli, Roberto; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2002
In 1991, the rate of inflation in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland was between 35% and 70%. At the end of 2001, it is below 8%. We setup a small structural macro model of these economies to explain the process of disinflation. Contrary to a widespread skepticism, which permeated a large...
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From the shortage of jobs to the shortage of skilled workers: labor markets in the EU new member states
Rutkowski, Jan - 2007
Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent a dramatic transformation. Notably, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and...
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Privatization when workers control firms: Mass privatization versus MEBO
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul; Maw, James - 2006
In many transition economies, insiders controlled state-owned firms, de facto. For such firms, we model the decision about privatization method, focusing on the choice between free distribution (so called 'mass privatization') and management-employee buyouts. We incorporate a political...
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