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Economic self-interest and social considerations are the key determinants of public support for market reforms in transition countries. However, political strategies that rely mainly on public support for pushing through economic reforms have limited relevance if the prevailing institutional...
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How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed between 1991 and 2004, to identify the macro and institutional drivers of the public opinion. Our main...
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Using a unique dataset for 14 transition economies, we propose a new measure for individual evaluations of transitional reforms, which we use to study, for the first time, the evolution of support for economic and political reforms from 1991 to 2004. We show that support for economic changes has...
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China's transition to a market economy has been a process of basic institutional changes and institution building. The institutional change from a socialist labour regime (SLR) as one of the backbones upholding the traditional leninist system to a new "socialist" market labour regime (SMLR)...
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During the Russian Aliyah of the 1990s, 800,000 immigrants from the Former Soviet Union arrived in Israel increasing the local population within ten years by 18%. Within only three years, there was a negligible effect on unemployment and native wages despite the significant influx of immigrants....
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Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Russia and Slovakia) over their first ten years of freedom. We draw three conclusions from … relatively popular, Russia, Hungary and Bulgaria, reform is slower, more problematic, and aimed toward a welfare state not US …
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attract foreign business and drive FDI in Russia.• Five top trade partners increased their import purchases from Russia from … energy as a “new nuclear weapon”, along with further innovations. Markets felt the pressure of Russia and Saudi Arabia oil … price war influence game.• The clarity in Putin's 2020 constitutional amendments may bring stability to Russia and clarity …
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