The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working ontheir own having no or just a few employees and where one can find also people working with lowreturns and having firms without stability or prosperous dynamics. However, even the area...

Our aim is to investigate whether the direct payments and rural development measures of theEU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) do make jobs in agriculture safer. We work with adynamic labour demand equation that is augmented by the full set of policy instruments of theCAP. It is estimated on...

El presente trabajo muestra que los impuestos lineales sobre el consumo son una herramienta potente para lograr una redistribución eficiente. Este es el resultado que se obtiene en un modelo cuantitativo de ciclo de vida que replica la distribución de la renta y de la riqueza en Estados...

During the ongoing post-communist economic transitions, the relative well-being of many people is changing rapidly, and governments are not well positioned to accurately measure individual living standards. Under such circumstances, continued price controls over basic consumer goods within the...

This paper examined the male-female differentials in hourly earnings in Russia from 1996 to 2002. The gender wage gap did not alter significantly in the earlier years, a period characterized by economic instability, but as the economy recovered, the differential in earnings increased initially....

A growing body of national-level survey evidence indicates that small-scale entrepreneurial activity has been an important engine of growth in post-socialist economies. Here we use a rich regional data set to obtain a statistical characterization of the relationship between entrepreneurial...

This paper examines the changes in nutritional behavior of Russian adults over the ten-year transition period, between 1994 and 2004. We present evidence on the impact of individual as well as regional characteristics on changes in fat, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on...

The Hungarian sheep sector has become a one-market sector, almost the wholeamount of slaughter lamb went to Italy. It would worth to exploit possibilities in other Europeanmarkets. Such markets can be the Spanish and Greek for ”light” and the French, German andEnglish markets for ”heavy”...