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This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed matching procedure and demonstrate...
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. Using data over this period of deep transition, we estimate a disequilibrium model with a standard maximum likelihood method …
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One feature common to many post-socialist transition economies is a relatively compressed wage structure in the state … acquisition and thus presents adverse consequences for the entire transition economy if a substantial portion of the labor force … outcomes, in a transition setting with matched firm and worker data collected in one of the largest provinces of Vietnam – Ho …
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In most countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, the transition to market … fall in employment since 1990 has been similar to other transition economies, leading to a sharp reduction of labor force …
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adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …
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We present a model of neighborhood effects in wage payment delays. Positive feedback arises because each employer’s arrears affect the late payment costs faced by other firms in the same local labor market, resulting in a strategic complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on...
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How fast transition should occur and how fast privatization and/or entry should take place in formerly socialist … are emerging in transition economies: a high development equilibrium and a low development equilibrium. In the high … transition can push an economy to either the high or low development equilibrium in the long run. We concentrate on the speed …
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Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the evolution of the financing regimes. The e?ectiveness...
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manifested themselves more sharply than in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe. In East Germany, the … transition was especially rapid and sharp since East Germany virtually over night made the transition from the Eastern European …
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more flexibility leading to more innovation and reform. We apply our theory to business firms, transition economies, and … the organization of government (especially federalism). In the case of transition economies, our theory relates the …
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