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Why labour hoarding may be rational: A model offirm behaviour during transition
Namazie, Ceema Zahra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
In the Former Soviet Union, the early 1990s were characterized by largefalls in GDP and small changes to already low unemployment. The slowadjustment to unemployment was a result of employers using variousmeans to maintain employment levels, including; extended periods ofunpaid leave, reduced...
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A "socialist" economy in a capitalist world
Golley, Jane - In: Journal of Chinese economic and business studies 14 (2016) 1, pp. 9-24
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Reconstructing the Industrial Revolution: Analyses, Perceptions and Conceptions Of Britain’s Precocious Transition to Europe’s First Industrial Society
Riello, Giorgio; O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
The Industrial Revolution continues to be analysed by economic historians deploying the conceptual vocabularies of modern social science, particularly economics. Their approach which gives priority to the elaboration of causes and processes of evolution is far too often and superficially...
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Evaluating a class of nonlinear time series models
Heinen, Florian - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2010
we first treat how to choosean adequate transition function and then contribute to the evaluation stage by proposing …
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Welfare in Transition: Trends in Poverty andWell-being in Central Asia
Falkingham, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
This paper examines the impact of the transition from a planned toa market economy on living standards and welfare in … largenumbers of children and single parent families – the economicdislocation of transition has also given rise to new groups of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008743036
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Internal and external political competition
Hugh-Jones, David - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009
All rulers face political competition, both from rivals within their state, andfrom other states to which their subjects may exit. In a simple model, both kinds of competitionare substitutes. Internal competition (democracy) benefits citizens by allowingthem to replace rent-seeking rulers. But...
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Do Democracies Select More Educated Leaders?
Besley, Timothy; Reynal-Querol, Marta - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
This paper tests whether education levels di¤er between leadersselected in autocracies and democracies. We use a unique data seton over 1300 world leaders between 1848 and 2004 and exploit withincountry variation from transitions to and from democracy to show thatdemocracies pick more highly...
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Knowing what is good for you: Empirical analysis ofpersonal preferences and the “objective good”
Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
This paper aims to test empirically if certain frequently used measures of wellbeing,which are regarded as valuable properties of human life, are actuallydesired by people. In other words, it investigates whether the “expertjudgments” in social science overlap with social consensus on what...
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Tasting freedom: Happiness, religion and economictransition
Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
Economic transition lowered happiness on average, but did not affect allequally. This paper uses Hungarian survey data … to study the impact ofreligion and economic transition on happiness. Religious involvementcontributes positively to … of happiness for the religious. The impact ofeconomic transition has varied greatly across different groups. The …
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Informal Employment in Countries in Transition:A conceptual framework
Bernabè, Sabine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
In the past few years the informal sector in countries in transition hasincreasingly become the focus of research …
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