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those foreign policy issues, which are of crucial importance to Poland, Europe and transatlantic relations in both the long …

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Whose Money? Whose Time? A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Time Spent on Housework

Gupta, Sanjiv; Ash, Michael - 2006

We argue that earlier quantitative research on the relationship between heterosexual partners’ earnings and time spent on housework has two basic flaws. First, it has focused on the effects of women’s shares of couples’ total earnings on their housework, and has not considered the simpler...

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Income Distribution and Price Controls: Targeting a Social Safety Net During Economic Transition

Alexeev, Michael; Leitzel, James - 1999

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...

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An Analysis of Gender Wage Differentials in Russia from 1996-2002

Hansberry, Rita - 2004

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....

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Entrepreneurship and Post-Socialist Growth

Berkowitz, Daniel; DeJong, David N. - 2001

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...

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Changes in Food, Alcohol and Cigarettes Consumption during Transition: Evidence from Russia

Herzfeld, Thomas; Huffman, Sonya Kostova; Oskam, Arie J.; … - 2009

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...

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Effect of market structure on international coal trade

Kolstad, C.D.; Abbey, D.S. - 2009

examine monopoly (South Africa) and duopoly (South Africa, Australia) with a competitive fringe (US, Canada, Poland, China and …

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Disentangling Treatment Effects of Polish Active Labor Market Policies: Evidence from Matched Samples

Kluve, Jochen; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002

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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Job Creation, Destruction and Transition in Poland, 1988-1998: Panel Evidence

Jackson, John E.; Mach, Bogdan W. - 2002

Longitudinal data from interviews with Poles of working age conducted in 1988, 1993 and 1998 present a detailed view of the transition from a state dominated to a market economy. Job loss in state firms and job creation in new private firms are the dominant employment change, other than...

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Real Exchange Rate Misalignment: Prelude to Crisis?

Kemme, David M.; Roy, Saktinil - 2005

real exchange rate misalignments for Poland and Russia during the 1990s using the Beveridge and Nelson (1981) decomposition … substantially greater than that in Poland, indicating incipient pressures to devalue the ruble immediately preceding the August 1998 … crisis. The half life of an exogenous shock is found to be much shorter for Poland than for Russia in the pre-crisis period …

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