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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies

Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - 1999

are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000 adults in six transition economies. Estimated selfemployment earnings premia … related to schooling, pre-transition family income, receipt of property in restitution, precommunist family business …

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Sectoral Restructuring and Labor Mobility: A Comparative Look at the Czech Republic

Sorm, Vit; Terrell, Katherine - 2000

Labor mobility is crucial for an efficient allocation of resources and the transition economies are often viewed as … that it occurred with lower incidence and duration of unemployment than in the other transition economies. The demographic … characteristics of different patterns of mobility are similar across these transition economies: we identify younger people in general …

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Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy

Terrell, Katherine; Svejnar, Jan; Münich, Daniel - 2000

micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market … economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it is a leading transition economy in which the communist grid remained … firms during the transition. Our estimates also indicate that men?s wage-experience profile was concave in both regimes and …

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Knowledge based firms from Central and East European countries: A comparative overview of case studies

Woodward, Richard; Yörük, Deniz Eylem; Radosevic, Slavo - 2011

This paper focuses on knowledge-based entrepreneurship, or new firm creation in industries which are considered to be science-based or to use research and development intensively, in the East Central European (ECE) context. On the basis of case studies of thirteen knowledge-based firms in six...

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Sources of economical growth in the Czech food processing

Cechura, Lukas; Hockmann, Heinrich - In: Prague Economic Papers 19 (2010) 2, pp. 169-182

branches. The results suggest that despite more than one decade of transition, serious adjustment problems exist, including …

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Public sector efficiency in transition and beyond : evidence from Czech local governments

Šťastná, Lenka; Gregor, Martin - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 7/9, pp. 680-699

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Limitations on de-collectivisation in central European agriculture

Bezemer, Dirk Johan - 2000

Following formal privatisation of farm land and assets in CentralEurope, the change in agriculturalproduction structures has been both more limited and different thanwas initially expected. In this paper, thetheoretical reasons underlying those expectations are reviewed. Analternative...

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Entrepreneurship from scratch : lessons on the entry decision into self-employment from transition economies

Earle, John S.; Saková, Zuzana - 1999

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Sectoral restructuring and labor mobility : a comparative look at the Czech Republic

Sorm, Vit; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2000

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318594

Returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy

Terrell, Katherine D.; Švejnar, Jan; Münich, Daniel - 2000

micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market … economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it is a leading transition economy in which the communist grid remained … firms during the transition. Our estimates also indicate that men's wage-experience profile was concave in both regimes and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325997