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Are Interregional Wage Differentials in Russia Compensative?
Oshchepkov, Aleksey - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
Interregional differentials in nominal wages in the Russian Federation are huge compared to other countries. Using the NOBUS micro-data and a methodology based on the estimation of the wage equation augmented by aggregate regional characteristics, we show that these differentials have a...
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Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities
Berger, Mark C.; Blomquist, Glenn C.; Peter, Klara … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
. While Russia is undergoing transition to a market economy, we find ample evidence that compensating differentials for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763711
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Transition of the Hungarian Labour Market: Age, Skill and Regional Differences
Fazekas, K疵oly - Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of … - 2005
The system change has been accompanied by large scale redundancies, massive and frequently long-term unemployment, a high level of inactivity and growing income and regional disparities in Hungary. Transition has its winners and losers both in terms of economic activity and wages. The paper...
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Labour market states, mobility and entrepreneurship in transition economies
Dutz, Mark; Kauffmann, Celine; Najarian, Serineh; … - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - 2001
This paper examines the different strategies adopted by individuals in transition economies to cope with labour market restructuring. Using micro-data from seven countries at different stages of transition, we focus on “active” coping strategies, in particular mobility and entrepreneurship....
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Unemployment in East and West Europe
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the evolution of unemployment together with that of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822900
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Earnings Inequality and Transition: A Regional Analysis of Poland
Sibley, Christopher W.; Walsh, Patrick Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
In this paper we estimate the impact of transition on earnings inequality using data across Polish regions 1994-1997. Our central result is that earnings inequality is higher in regions that are more advanced in restructuring (higher labour productivity/job reallocation rates), controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703022
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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703823
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Post-Adaptation Growth Recovery in Poland and Russia - Similarities and Differences
DABROWSKI, Marek; Rohozynsky, Oleksandr; Sinitsina, Irina - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2004
followed the first period of output decline in two transition countries – Poland and Russia. They represent two different … poverty and inequality increased substantially during 1990s, to much bigger extent in Russia compared to Poland. While part of …, attempts of authoritarian restoration, etc. The period of ‘adaptation’ output decline was much more severe and longer in Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615470
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Russischer Agrarsektor im Aufschwung? Eine Analyse der technischen und Skaleneffizienz der Agrarunternehmen
Stange, Henriette; Lissitsa, Alexej - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2003
Dieses Discussion Paper beschäftigt sich mit der Analyse der technischen und Skaleneffizienz russischer Agrarunternehmen im Transformationsprozess. Insbesondere wird hierbei der Einfluss der Faktoren Betriebsgröße, Rechtsform und Spezialisierung auf die Effizienz untersucht. Um die...
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State-led, Oil-fuelled Development: Is That Good for Russia’s Future?
Hanson, Philip - In: CESifo Forum 9 (2008) 2, pp. 22-27
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998567