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Related Variety and Regional Growth in Hungary : Towards a Transition Economy Approach
Lengyel, Balázs - 2013
The aim of this paper is to adapt related variety calculations to the special case of Hungarian regional development in the late post-socialist transition period. First, we test regional employment growth in rising and declining regions separately, in order to distinguish those areas that could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073404
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Transformations in China's Internal Labor Migration and Hukou System
Colas, Mark - 2020
This paper examines China's changing internal labor migration patterns between 1990 and 2005 as its household … changes in individual characteristics can account for little of the increase in migration propensity during this period. By … employing a simple migration location choice model, we investigate the relationship between hukou policy and migration behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012850908
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Does democracy flourish in the dark? : regional development and democracy building
Coufalová, Lucie; Kecskésová, Michaela; Mikula, Stepan; … - 2024
This paper examines the impact of regional development on democracy building in the Czech Republic following the fall of the Iron Curtain and the autocratic communist regime in 1989. By exploiting the variation in regional development arising from the economic transition process, we identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014634486
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In search of opportunities? : the barriers to more efficient internal labor mobility in Ukraine
Koettl, Johannes; Kupets, Olga; Olefir, Anna; Santos, … - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-28
Ukraine's economy lacks dynamism, and this is both the cause and the effect of people not moving across the regions. The rate at which Ukrainians move from one region to another within the country is only half of what would be expected in comparison with other countries. This paper examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466452
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In search of opportunities? : the barriers to more efficient internal labor mobility in Ukraine
Koettl, Johannes; Kupets, Olga; Olefir, Anna; Santos, … - 2014
Ukraine's economy lacks dynamism, and this is both the cause and the effect of people not moving across the regions. The rate at which Ukrainians move from one region to another within the country is only half of what would be expected in comparison with other countries. This paper examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434462
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Entwicklungstendenzen landwirtschaftlicher Familienbetriebe in Russland seit 1990
Bruisch, Katja - 2007
of Russian agriculture. Despite these expectations, family farming is still a small sector in Russia, while agriculture … social sciences, which should complement purely economic approaches. -- Russia ; transitional economies ; agricultural reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003566420
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Vertical Restructuring of the Infrastructure Sectors of Transition Economies
Pittman, Russell W. - 2003
it to the railroad, electricity, and telecommunications sectors in Russia, Lithuania, Romania, and Poland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124546
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Unequal transition : the widening wealth gap amidst China's rapid growth
Jiang, Yangtian; Zheng, Yu; Zhu, Lijun - 2023
We propose a quantitative theory of wealth creation and distribution during China's transitional growth from the early 1990s, when barriers to setting up private businesses, trading housing, and migrating from rural to urban areas are struck down. In response to the changing economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314291
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Migration and adjustment to shocks in transition economies
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2001
Does migration serve as an effective channel of regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks in transition economies? If … so, one should find a strong relationship between regional unemployment and average wages on the one hand, and migration … flows on the other. Yet, the evidence from transition economies indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518128
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In transit : the well-being of migrants from transition and post-transition countries
Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - 2014
The extant literature has focused on migration's consequences for the receiving countries. In this paper, we ask a … methodology combining statistical matching with difference-in-differences, we assess migration's effects on the well-being of …, migration enhances subjective well-being and satisfaction with freedom. The results are robust to sensitivity checks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412653