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The Emergence of Large Shareholders in Mass Privatized Firms: Evidence from Poland and the Czech Republic
Grosfeld, Irena; Hashi, Iraj - 2004
transition economies, Poland and the Czech Republic, we find that despite important differences in the design of the two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324998
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Regional Unemployment and its Persistence in Transition Countries
Bornhorst, Fabian; Commander, Simon - 2004
We look at the differences in regional unemployment rates in six major transition countries and their persistence over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261837
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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - 1999
are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000 adults in six transition economies. Estimated selfemployment earnings premia … related to schooling, pre-transition family income, receipt of property in restitution, precommunist family business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262299
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The Distribution of Wages in Transition Countries
Newell, Andrew - 2001
This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition … the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem to be sectoral shifts in employment and increasing inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262471
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Disentangling Treatment Effects of Polish Active Labor Market Policies: Evidence from Matched Samples
Kluve, Jochen; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies – Training and Intervention Works – on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed matching procedure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262564
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Changes in the Structure of Earnings During the Polish Transition
Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2002
We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland. We find that inequality in … increased earnings inequality during transition. However, our decomposition of the sources of the increase in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262743
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Earnings Inequality and Transition: A Regional Analysis of Poland
Sibley, Christopher W.; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2002
In this paper we estimate the impact of transition on earnings inequality using data across Polish regions 1994 … relationship between earnings inequality and the stage of transition across regions remains when we apply an infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262806
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The emerging aversion to inequality: evidence from Poland 1992 - 2005
Grosfeld, Irena; Senik, Claudia - 2008
economic transformation and rapid economic growth. We focus on the Polish transition experience, and explore individuals' self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268934
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From transition to competition: dynamic efficiency analysis of Polish electricity distribution companies
Cullmann, Astrid; von Hirschhausen, Christian R. - 2007
In this paper we test the hypothesis that the economic transition toward a market economy increases the efficiency of … that the technical efficiency of the companies has indeed increased during the transition, while allocative efficiency has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274284
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The emerging aversion to inequality: Evidence from Poland 1992 - 2005
Grosfeld, Irena; Senik, Claudia - 2008
economic transformation and rapid economic growth. We focus on the Polish transition experience, and explore individuals' self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430800