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To achieve sustainable economic growth in transition countries, it is crucial that enterpriseperformance is improved. However, it is not a priori clear which factors are essential for this. ForRussia, data to investigate the potential determinants of enterprise performance is scarce.Therefore,...
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This paper uses 1985-1999 manufacturing census data for old Russian enterprises to calculate the magnitude and productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector, but increased slightly during the transition, while job...
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negative effect in Russia, and they provide some evidence of positive foreign effects on both wages and employment in all four … large, positive, but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of both types in Russia and Ukraine. The …
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Inhaberinnen im Handwerk. Zwar hat sich in den letzten Jahren der Frauenanteil im Handwerk etwas erhöht, so dass derzeit etwa jeder …. Der Grund liegt primär darin, dass Frauen eher in Dienstleistungsbranchen gründen, die im Handwerk unterrepräsentiert sind … vermehrt für eine Selbstständigkeit im Handwerk interessiert werden können. In erster Linie sind die Rollenbilder aufzubrechen …
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arbeiten überproportional häufig in Handwerksberufen. Außerdem ist der Anteil von ausländischen Lehrlingen im Handwerk größer … Einwanderungskohorte, die im Handwerk arbeiten, an den Anteil der Deutschen im Handwerk anpasst. Längerfristig übersteigt der … Herkunft im B1-Handwerk. Die Erhöhung des Migrantenanteils ist besonders stark ausgeprägt unter Selbstständigen. Es gibt aber …
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It is a common assumption that regions within the same country converge to approximately the same steady-state income levels. The so-called absolute convergence hypothesis focuses on initial income levels to account for the variability in income growth among regions. Empirical data seem to...
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We study the negative correlation between natural resource-abundance and long-term income focusing on the savings-investment channel. We first present empirical evidence on this channel and then develop an OverLapping-Generations (OLG) model to study the issue. In this model, savings adjust...
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This paper investigates the connection between resource abundance and innovation, as a transmission mechanism that can elucidate part of the resource curse hypothesis; i.e. the observed negative impact of resource wealth on income growth. We develop a variation of the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model...
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We examine empirically the effect of natural resource abundance on economic growth. We find that natural resources have a negative impact on growth when considered in isolation, but a positive impact on growth when including in the analysis other variables such as corruption, investments,...
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We combine the resource curse literature with the literature on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to investigate two hypotheses, namely (i) natural resources wealth: countries with a comparative advantage in natural resources attract more M&As in natural resource intensive sectors and...
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