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Russischer Agrarsektor im Aufschwung? Eine Analyse der technischen und Skaleneffizienz der Agrarunternehmen
Stange, Henriette; Lissitsa, Alexej - 2003
Dieses Discussion Paper beschäftigt sich mit der Analyse der technischen und Skaleneffizienz russischer Agrarunternehmen im Transformationsprozess. Insbesondere wird hierbei der Einfluss der Faktoren Betriebsgröße, Rechtsform und Spezialisierung auf die Effizienz untersucht. Um die...
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Pension reform options for Russia and Ukraine: A critical analysis of available options and their expected outcomes. With a focus on labour market, industrial restructuring and pub...
Góra, Marek; Rohozynsky, Oleksandr; Sinyavskaya, Oxana - 2010
This paper provides the results of analyses of key problems related to pension systems and their reforms in Russia and Ukraine. The pension systems and their reforms in both countries are compared. They are also compared with the general picture observed in the OECD or selected countries...
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Corporate governance: Does the concept work in transition economies?
Kuznecov, Andrei Petrovich; Kuznecova, Olga - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 8 (2003) 3, pp. 244-262
The paper evaluates the feasibility of employing mainstream models of corporate governance in the context of transition …
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Creating Capitalism: Politics, Reforms, and Economic Performance
Wykoff, Frank - 2001
hypotheses about transition are tested using two-stage least squares on a logit model using data for six countries (Bulgaria, the …. Finally, critical macroeconomic data for the earlier years around the transition period are very poor quality. Indeed economic … opposite direction of realized output. International agencies could contribute greatly to analysis of transition by quickly and …
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Russia's economy and regional spillovers
Becker, Torbjörn - 2019
This paper looks at how the Russian economy has developed under the leadership of Putin and how it spills over to its neighbours in the CIS region. It stresses the importance of international oil prices as a determinant of policies and outcomes in Russia and highlights how this has impacted...
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The Russian food, alcohol, and tobacco consumption patterns during transition
Rizov, Marian; Herzfeld, Thomas; Huffman, Sonya K. - In: Collegium Antropologicum (Coll Antropol) 36 (2012) 4, pp. 1143-1154
changes in fat, protein, alcohol and tobacco consumption, and on diet's diversity during the transition period 1994 - 2004 in …
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Measuring the Success of Agricultural Transition: An Application to Russia
Liefert, William M. - 2007
The paper presents a model of the agro-food system in a transition economy, which shows howthe move from a planned to a … complementary approaches formeasuring the success of agricultural transition, where success is defined as increasing consumerwelfare …
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The Changing Demand for Skills : Evidence from the Transition
Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - 2004
Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes … using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261836
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity growth? This paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual...
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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia?s Regions
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - 2000
Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country?s 89 regions, and rates varied among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78 regions over 1992-1998 we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262369