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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
-term shocks. The recent economic crisis is not covered since the analysis was mostly completed by 2008. First, we present the … general picture which describes the current demographic and economic situations as well as the challenges that are being faced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326595
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Suffer for the faith? Parental religiosity and children's health
Popova, Olga - 2016
This paper provides novel evidence on differences in health outcomes of children in religious and non-religious families in Russia. The health indicators analyzed include the subjective health status and anthropometric outcomes. The endogeneity of religiosity is accounted for. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580507
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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status : Evidence from Russia
Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - 2004
resources. It appears that individuals and households are able to weather large economic crises at least in terms of maintaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261851
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Autopsy on an Empire : Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M. - 2005
Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. Using cross-country and Russian household survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262196
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The Response of Consumption in Russian Households to Economic Shocks
Stillman, Steven - 2001
the time period studied in this paper (1994 – 1998), Russia experienced two major economic crises. Both featured extreme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262612
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Understanding Interhousehold Transfers in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Russia
Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - 2002
-age populations in the world). Informal networks in Russia are likely to take on distinctive characteristics as the country?s economic … found in much wealthier countries. Although it is often assumed that the elderly in Russia are a highly vulnerable economic … evidence that transfers respond to economic needs (i.e. transitory fluctuations in resources). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262677
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A decomposition analysis of regional poverty in Russia
Kolenikov, Stanislav; Shorrocks, Anthony - 2003
This paper applies a new decomposition technique to the study of variations in poverty across the regions of Russia. The procedure, which is based on the Shapley value in cooperative game theory, allows the deviation in regional poverty levels from the all- Russia average to be attributed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279360
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Restructuring and social safety nets in Russia and Ukraine - social security influence on labor mobility: Possible opportunities and challenges
Góra, Marek; Rohozynsky, Oleksandr - 2009
The paper discusses the issue of labor force mobility in a broad sense, and analyses how changes in social security policy and the structure of the social safety net (SSN) affects different aspects of labor force mobility. The text is structured as follows: Introduction, then follows Chapter 2,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430834
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Social security driven tax wedge and its effects on employment and shadow employment
Góra, Marek; Rohozynsky, Oleksandr; Sinitsina, Irina; … - 2009
, employment and shadow employment in Russia and Ukraine. The first section presents a summary of the economic and institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430835
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BMI growth rates and the nutrition transition: The role of income, inequality and income growth in Russia
Butzlaff, Iris - 2016
transitional processes, particularly economic transitions on nutritional and health outcomes. We test the hypothesis that the …-shape and thus changes its sign from positive to negative in the process of economic development. For the case of Russia, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441738