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The Market Economy in Transition and the Accuracy of the Economic Results : A Theoretical Approach
Pohoata, Ion - 2008
The way the results of the human activity are measured has been and still is a major theoretical and practical concern of the economic world. In this article we are particularly interested in analyzing the circumstances that provide a real image for the economic results at macroeconomic level....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772541
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Double-edged sword: persistent effects of communism on life satisfaction
Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2021
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/10012612861
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Double-edged sword : persistent effects of communism on life satisfaction
Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2021
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
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The Market Economy in Transition and the Accuracy of the Economic Results : Is the Economic Growth of Romania in the Last Years a Real One?
Popescu, Cristian; Pohoata, Ion - 2008
The way the results of the human activity are measured has been and still is a major theoretical and practical concern of the economic world. In this article we are particularly interested in analyzing the circumstances that provide a real image for the economic results at macroeconomic level....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219940
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Gender and occupational wage gaps in Romania : from planned equality to market inequality?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 10, pp. 1-27
In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equal opportunities and treatment for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279609
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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Romania : From Planned Equality to Market Inequality?
Andrén, Thomas; Andren, Daniela - 2021
In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equal opportunities and treatment for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316716
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Privatization and Enterprise Wage Structures During Transition : Evidence from Rural Industry in China
Ho, Samuel P. S.; Dong, Xiao-Yuan; Bowles, Paula; … - 2003
Wage structures in transition economies usually diverge significantly from their centrally-planned predecessors. Using a matched sample of employees and enterprises, we examine the effects of privatization on wage structures in rural industry in two provinces of China. We find that privatization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014105100
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On the Laffer Effect in Post-Communist Economies : On the Bases of the Observation of Russian Literature
Papava, Vladimer - 2012
Originally the Laffer Curve was formulated in a macroeconomic context, for which reason it is not applicable to individual taxes, but rather to a certain average aggregate tax. The 'corrections' to the Laffer Curve are based on a factor of time. High importance is the question – in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097347
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Russian Economic Reforms as Perceived by Western Critics
Mau, Vladimir - 2012
policy advice and mistaken policy choices. Though Russia's performance leaves much to be desired, such criticisms are based … particular the views presented by Jospeh Stiglitz, shows that the Chinese reform path was not available to Russia, that mass … and necessity in policy making more generally. The final section of the paper characterises Russia as a case of weak state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098903
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Modernization and the Russian Economy : Three Hundred Years of Catching Up
Mau, Vladimir - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101550