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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...

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Banking reform in Georgia

Mercan, Metin - In: IBSU Scientific Journal (IBSUSJ) 1 (2006) 1, pp. 54-66

Georgia's banking system restructure began in 1991 when Soviet Union collopsed.This paper tries to compare and constract the performance of banks and banking system between 1999 and 2004 with banks in other transition countries. Although Georgia banking system showed a long processing in banking...

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Tackling enterprises operating in the informal sector in developing and transition economies: a critical evaluation of the neo-liberal policy approach

Williams, Colin C. - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 2 (2014) 1, pp. 1-17

Over the past decade or so, there has been widespread recognition that a large and growing proportion of the global workforce is employed in informal sector enterprises. To explain this, neo-liberals contend that enterprises operate in the informal sector due to high taxes, public sector...

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Two tales of contraction: gender wage gap in Georgia before and after the 2008 crisis

Khitarishvili, Tamar - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 5 (2016) 14, pp. 1-28

This paper examines the contraction in the gender wage gap in Georgia between 2004 and 2011. Behind the continuous decline at the mean lies a change in the shape of the gender wage gap across the wage distribution before and after the 2008 crisis. Before the crisis, the growth in state sector...

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Corporate capital structure and how soft budget constraints may affect it

Rizov, Marian - In: Journal of Economic Surveys 22 (2008) 4, pp. 648-684

This survey paper examines existing theories of capital structure and related empirical tests with the aim to derive theoretical as well empirically testable predictions about the implications of the soft budget constraint for corporate capital structure. We show that the soft budget constraint...

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The Relationship between Foreign Banking and Credit Access: Panel Analysis Method

Baltaci, Nuri; Akbulut, Gizem; Civelek, Gürsan - In: Journal of Economics and Political Economy 1 (2014) 1, pp. 39-48

After 1990, the crises in planned economies has resulted with accept of the free market system and disintegration of this country blocks. The transition economies are defined as process of approaching work to the free market system of markets. Privatization efforts especially in finance markets...

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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-13

Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...

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Socioeconomic-related inequalities in child malnutrition: Evidence from the Ghana multiple indicator cluster survey

Novignon, Jacob; Aboagye, Emmanuel; Agyemang, Otuo Serebour - In: Health Economics Review 5 (2015) 34, pp. 1-12

inequalities across various household characteristics. This study examined the influence of socioeconomic factors on inequality in … nature of inequality in child malnutrition. Secondly, concentration indices were computed to quantify the magnitude of … inequality. Thirdly, decomposition analysis was conducted to determine the role of mother's education and health insurance …

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Violent Conflicts Increase Income Inequality

Vothknecht, Marc - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 35, pp. 237-241

influence the distribution of income within a society; a cross-country analysis shows that income inequality increases as a …

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Perceived Income Justice Depends on the Economy

Liebig, Stefan; Valet, Peter; Schupp, Jürgen - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 24, pp. 187-192

At least half of all employees in Germany described their wages in all three survey years under consideration here - 2005, 2007, and 2009 - as just. Still, major changes occurred over this period in how people perceived their earnings. Data from the Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) Study show that...

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