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The Gender Wage Gap in Bulgaria: A Semiparametric Estimation of Discrimination
Jolliffe, Dean - 2001
Bulgaria's transition to a market economy has coincided with a large increase in wage inequality. Given the emphasis on … wage leveling in pre-transition Bulgaria, the rise in wage inequality may be due to managers rewarding more productive …, nationally representative Bulgaria Integrated Household Survey, I examine whether gender discrimination is an important factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476678
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Dual Inflation Under the Currency Board: The Challenges of Bulgarian EU Accession
Nenovsky, Nikolay; Dimitrova, Kalina - 2002
The importance of analysing inflation sources and dynamics in Bulgaria is imposed by (i) the long run process of price … an attempt to estimate Balassa - Samuelson (BS) effect in Bulgaria (after the introduction of the Currency Board). The BS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476770
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Dynamics of the Financial Wealth of the Institutional Sectors in Bulgaria: Empirical Studies of the Post-Communist Period
Nenovsky, Nikolay; Mihaylova, Gergana - 2007
sectors in Bulgaria in the period 1998-2005 and to identify the major net creditors and net debtors. The empirical data used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476895
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The Impact on Structural Reforms on Employment Growth and Labour Productivity: Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Dimova, Ralitza - 2003
Using firm-level data from Bulgaria and Romania, this paper addresses a lacuna in the transition literature, namely … net job creation at the firm level was affected by privatization in Bulgaria, privatization in Romania did not have any … effect on firm-level employment growth. Further, Olley-Pakes (1996) decomposition indicates that in Bulgaria, over time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477145
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Regional unemployment and human capital in transition economies 1
Jurajda, ŠtěpÁn; Terrell, Katherine - 2009
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that within-country regional variation in inherited human capital in four such economies explains the bulk of regional variation in unemployment; we explore potential explanations. Our evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477362
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Firms’ Price Markups and Returns to Scale in Imperfect Markets: Bulgaria and Hungary
Dobrinsky, Rumen; Kőrösi, Gábor; Markov, Nikolay; … - 2004
Under perfect competition and constant returns to scale, firms producing homogeneous products set their prices at their marginal costs which also equal their average costs. However, the departure from these standard assumptions has important implications with respects to the derived theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477454
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Selling Exports to Consumers in Bulgaria: Attitudes Towards Foreign Products
Ziamou, Paschalina Lilia; Zotos, Yorgos; Lysonski, Steven; … - 1999
expanding Europe.? The purpose of this paper is to assess the competitiveness of European Union (ED) products in Bulgaria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484491