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The distribution of wages in transition countries

Newell, Andrew - 2001

This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition countries since the collapse of communism. Most countries experienced an increase in wage inequality during the initial shock of the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem...

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Determinants of country beta risk in Poland

Wdowinski, Piotr - 2004

In the paper we analyze determinants of the capital market beta risk in Poland in the monthly period 1996-2002. The beta risk is measured as a time-varying parameter estimated in a regression of the Warsaw stock indexes (WIG and WIG20 separately) on major foreign stock market indexes (DJIA,...

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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

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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Earnings inequality and transition : a regional analysis of Poland

Sibley, Christopher W.; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2002

In this paper we estimate the impact of transition on earnings inequality using data across Polish regions 1994-1997. Our central result is that earnings inequality is higher in regions that are more advanced in restructuring (higher labour productivity/job reallocation rates), controlling for...

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Inequality, transfers and growth : new evidence from the economic transition in Poland

Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2002

This paper analyzes the evolution of inequality in Poland during the economic transition that began in 1989-90. Using micro data from the Household Budget Surveys, we find that, after a brief spike in 1989, income and consumption inequality actually declined to below pretransition levels during...

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Determinanten der FDI-Standortwahl : eine empirische Analyse für die Ukraine und Polen

Levoshko, Tamila - 2015

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht erstmalig für die Ukraine und Polen, welchen Einfluss die politische Orientierung und … ‚political and partisan cycle‘ für die Zuflüsse der ausländischen Direktinvestitionen in der Ukraine und Polen existiert. Die … Zuflüsse des ausländischen Kapitals als Regionen mit der Janukovych-Partei an der Macht. In Polen gibt es hingegen keine …

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