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Student views on transition to higher education: challenges, impacts and suggestions
Denny, Eleanor - 2019
This paper examines students'perspectives on the main transitional challengesexperienced when commencing higher education. It explores which students are most affected by the transition and also provides a summary of student recommendations to help improve the transition. Using a case study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296124
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Does labor supply respond to a flat tax? Evidence from the Russian tax reform
Duncan, Denvil; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - 2009
We exploit the exogenous change in marginal tax rates created by the Russian flat tax reform of 2001 to identify the effect of taxes on labor supply of males and females. We apply the weighted difference-in-difference regression approach and instrumental variables to the labor supply function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269214
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Does labour supply respond to a flat tax? : evidence from the Russian tax reform
Duncan, Denvil; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - In: The economics of transition 18 (2010) 2, pp. 365-404
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Public employment and redistributive politics : evidence from Russia's regions
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, … - 2000
Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most … growth of public employment in Russia appears less a result of ignorant or irresolute central management than a perverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335239
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Equilibrium wage arrears : a theoretical and empirical analysis of institutional lock-in
Earle, John S.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2000
payment equilibrium." Our econometric analysis of linked employer-employee data for Russia supports the model's contention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339102
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754282
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Disorganization and financial collapse
Marin, Dalia; Schnitzer, Monika - 2000
Recently, Blanchard and Kremer (BK) argued that disorganization has led to the output decline in the former Soviet Union. In this paper we introduce liquidity and credit constraints into the BK model and show how these problems can alleviate the hold-up problem. We argue further that barter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781618
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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
Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415087
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Subsidization and structural change in Eastern German transition : did economic policy meet its objectives?
Gerling, Katja - 2000
Economic policy interventions of a scale as effected in eastern Germany can be expected to have a significant impact on the economy, which may be in accordance with the objectives of the policy measures or manifest itself in distortions of several kinds. This paper analyzes the structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472466
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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
conditional treatment effect estimation can add considerable insight to the interpretation of results. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403475