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Comrades in the Family? Soviet Communism and Informal Family Insurance
Costa-Font, Joan; Nicinska, Anna - 2020
We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on preferences for family supports, which we refer to as 'informal family insurance'. We exploit both cross-country and cohort variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322649
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Institutional framework and poverty : a transition economy perspective
Ahsan, Syed M. - 2001
This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400868
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European Integration and Differences in Development Tracks of East European Borderland (Європейська інтеграція та відмінності в шляхах розвитку східноєвропейського пограниччя)...
Savelyev, Yuriy - 2017
Development and problems of modernization of peripheral societies of European civilization are considered in the paper. It is argued that recent enlargement of the European Union has left three Eastern European countries – Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine in a specific zone that can be defined as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968884
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Institutional Framework and Poverty : A Transition Economy Perspective
Ahsan, Syed M. - 2021
This paper focuses on the role of "institutions" in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320747
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Social capital and migration intentions in post-communist countries
Huber, Peter; Mikula, Stepan - 2018
We analyse the impact of social capital on the willingness to migrate in 28 post-communist and five western European comparator countries using the Life in Transition Survey. We find substantially lower levels of professional social capital among the older cohorts in post-communist than in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788047
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Learning from Leipzig? Regional Development and Socio-cultural Transition
Bunzel, Dirk; Kelemen, Mihaela - In: Review of Economics & Finance 1 (2011) June, pp. 52-62
This paper describes developmental pathways of two regions in Central and Eastern Europe: Leipzig (Germany) and Petrosani (Romania). Once being strongholds of traditional industries, these regions have developed along distinctive socio-economic trajectories over the last two decades. While...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010927794
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Comrades in the family? : Soviet communism and informal family insurance
Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna - 2020
We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on preferences for family supports, which we refer to as 'informal family insurance'. We exploit both cross-country and cohort variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314695
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Conceptualizing Organizational Domains of Community Empowerment through Empowerment Evaluation in Estonian Communities
Kasmel, Anu; Tanggaard, Pernille - In: Societies 1 (2011) 1, pp. 3-29
The importance of community empowerment has been strongly emphasized in health promotion publications in Western societies. Only a few studies exist to highlight the empowerment processes in countries in transition in Eastern Europe. A multi-stage study was designed to develop a context-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011029746
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The Increasing Role of Central and Eastern Europe in the Global Services Offshoring Market : Evidence from Trade Statistics
Gal, Zoltan - 2011
Many Central and Eastern European countries invigorated by EU enlargement became important locations for offshored service centres. Building on the region's nearshoring advantages such as geographical-cultural proximity and on its multilingual graduate supply, CEE is likely to utilise more value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131098
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Financial and Regulatory Assessment of Mobile Network Sharing as a Trigger of Cost Efficient 5G Rollout in CEE
Földes, Gábor - 2022
, return on investments often lag behind normal profit expectations. Co-investment, like mobile network sharing can promote … of this paper to assess the Czech and Hungarian mobile network sharing agreements in CEE that both show higher degree of … finding is that, although live network sharing agreements have been opposed by competition regulators, main anticompetitive …
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