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Are EU Candidate Countries Ready for the Single Market? Comparing Performance with an EU Benchmark
De Loecker, Jan - 2002
The process of the East-West integration has come to a point that enlargement appears inevitable. But are these countries really ready to join the EU in tfirms of competitive perfirmance? Firstly, we construct a virtual best practice production frontier for firms active in a European Union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313326
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Die Wirtschaftsentwicklung Polens im Jahre 1988: Von der 'zweiten Reformetappe' zum 'Konsolidierungsplan der Wirtschaft'
Quaisser, Wolfgang - 1989
Das Gutachten behandelt zunächst die polnische Wirtschaftsentwicklung des Jahres 1988, d.h. die gesamtwirtschaftlichen und sektoralen Ergebnisse sowie die binnen- und außenwirtschaftlichen Probleme. Danach werden die Reformvorstellungen des Jahres 1988 analysiert und insbesondere auf die...
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Regional Unemployment and its Persistence in Transition Countries
Bornhorst, Fabian; Commander, Simon John - 2021
We look at the differences in regional unemployment rates in six major transition countries and their persistence over time. We analyse the role various adjustment mechanisms play. While movement out of the labour force seems to be one consequence in many regions with high relative unemployment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319418
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Job Creation, Job Destruction and Employment Growth in Transition Countries in the 90's
Konings, Jozef - 2021
In this paper we document and analyze gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania. Using comparable firm level data over the years 1993- 1997, we find that in early transition job destruction dominates job creation, while the latter is picking up...
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30 years of economic transformation in CEE : key five lessons for Belarus
CASE - Centrum Analiz Społeczno-Ekonomicznych - 2020
economic liberalization. It seems that the economic authorities have sustained more transformation efforts during 2015 … and accelerating the implementation of institutional transformation, primarily by fostering elimination of existing … administrative mechanisms of inefficient resource allocation. Based on the experience of the CEE countries’ economic transformation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230880
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Explaining the Increase in Inequality During the Transition
Milanovic, Branko - 1999
The paper tries to explain the increase in inequality that occured in all transition economies by constructing a simple model of change in composition of employment during the transition. The change consists in the "hollowing-out" of the state-sector middle class as it moves either into the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197308
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Explaining the Increase in Inequality During the Transition
Milanovic, Branko - 2004
Since the beginning of transition to market economy, inequality has increased in all transition countries. The factors driving inequality up: increasing wage inequality (as workers move from a relatively egalitarian state sector to a less equal private sector), and the rising share of income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197472
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Sources of Inflation and Output Fluctuations in Poland and Hungary : Implications for Full Membership in the European Union
Dibooglu, Selahattin; Kutan, Ali M. - 2003
This paper examines the sources of fluctuations in inflation and output in two leading transition- economy candidates for admission to the European Union (EU), Poland and Hungary. Using a rational expectations, dynamic open economy aggregate supply- aggregate demand model, we consider real oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124144
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The Effect of the Economic Transition on the Body Mass Index of Conscripts in Poland
Bielicki, Tadeusz; Kozie, Sawomir; Szklarska, Alicja; … - 2004
The political and socio-economic transition initiated in Poland in the late 1980s is still continuing and has affected all social classes as well as all spheres of daily life of the people. The impact of this change on nutrition and health is examined here, by comparing the body mass index (BMI)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072532
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30 Years of Economic Transformation in CEE : Key Five Lessons For Belarus
Naūrodski, Sierž; Alachnovič, Aleś; Styczynska, Izabela - 2020
economic liberalization. It seems that the economic authorities have sustained more transformation efforts during 2015 … and accelerating the implementation of institutional transformation, primarily by fostering elimination of existing … administrative mechanisms of inefficient resource allocation. Based on the experience of the CEE countries’ economic transformation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014098817