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The transition process has had different distributional impacts across different interest groups and countries. These … have led to differences in the support for transition. In this paper, we study support attitudes for both the economic and … political transition using data from the New Barometer Surveys for 14 transition economies from 1991 to 2004. We document that …
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Using a unique dataset for 14 transition economies, we propose a new measure for individual evaluations of transitional … those living in the CIS countries, especially during the 1990s. We also find evidence that transition-related hardship …
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Using a unique dataset for 14 transition economies, we propose a new measure for individual evaluations of transitional … those living in the CIS countries, especially during the 1990s. We also find evidence that transition-related hardship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185183
Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to work clandestinely and gather compromising materials about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. We...
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Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to work clandestinely and gather compromising materials about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616150
Despite strong growth performance in transition economies in the last decade, residents of transition countries report … explanations of this phenomenon. First, we document that the disparity in life satisfaction between residents of transition and non-transition … macroeconomic volatility, and a mismatch of human capital of residents educated before transition which disproportionately affected …
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, from the first wave of the Life in Transition Survey, I show that a range of attitudes - including diminished support for …
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This study explores how initial endowments at the start of transition have shaped reform outcomes and reform … resources sector at the start of transition underperformed other countries in terms of the speed and the depth of economic …
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Our main interest is the impact of the choice of the speed of economic reform on economic growth. We estimate a system of 3 equations where economic growth, economic reform and FDI are jointly determined. We find that new reforms affect economic growth negatively but attract FDI, whereas the...
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Since 1990, countries in emerging Europe and Central Asia have undergone comprehensive economic transformation. These reforms helped achieve an impressive degree of income convergence toward the levels of the advanced economies, although at the cost of rising inequality and lower life...
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