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Deindustrialisation and Structural Change During the Post-Communist Transition

Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Zalewska, Anna - 2001

The aim of this paper is to model the evolution of employment structure in post-communist economies in the broader context of deindustrialisation. The paper builds on the model of structural change developed by Rowthorn and Wells (1987). We show that the starting point of high industry sector...

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The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002

Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues – including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...

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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency?: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001

Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - 2003

The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency changed in response to changing competitive...

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Non-monetary Trade and Differential Access to Credit in the Russian Transition

Ivanenko, Vlad - 2003

. Second, when the Federal Government moved to finance its budgetary deficit through open-market operations, it crowded out …

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A Comparison of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China’s Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - 2005

Previous research suggests that minorities are not faring well in China’s transition—both income and occupational attainment gaps are widening. We are particularly interested in whether the differences in majority and minority economic outcomes are the result of ethnicity per se, or whether...

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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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Revenue Sharing and Control Rights in Team Production: Theories and Evidence from Joint Ventures.*

Bai, Chong-En; Tao, Zhigang; Wu, Changqi - 2003

This paper presents a model of the joint venture that is grounded in the stylized facts we found from a sample of 200 joint venture contracts. The model incorporates the revenue-sharing contract into the incomplete contract frameworks of Grossman-Hart-Moore Property Rights Theory and the...

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Getting Behind the East-West [German] Wage Differential: Theory and Evidence

Burda, Michael C.; Schmitd, Christoph M. - 1997

Labor markets are the most important mediator of German unification and wages are a central indicator of its progress. Starting from the observation that a wage differential between two workers can arise either because workers have different endowments of human capital characteristics or...

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Where Do the Leaders Trade?

Hanousek, Jan; Nemecek, Libor - 1997

In the present paper we concentrate on the interaction and sharing of the information between the organized markets in the Czech Republic. Moreover, the interesting principal-agent problem between the Prague Stock Exchange (PSE) and RMS (over the counter system) is studied to identify the...

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Ownership Characteristics and Access to Finance: Evidence from a Survey of Large Privatised Companies in Hungary and Poland

Isachenkova, Natalia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2004

We examine financial constraints and forms of finance used for investment, by analysing survey data on 157 large … to obtain inferences about the sample companies’ access to finance from a model for categorical outcome. By applying … groups and enterprises with concentrated ownership are all less constrained in their access to finance. Moreover, we identify …

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