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Introduction (Paul Dobrescu) -- Part I. Envisaging Development in the Contemporary Society: Theory and Public Debates -- Why Do Some Countries Develop and Others Not? (Ian Goldin) -- Measuring the Hard-to-Measure in Development: Dimensions, Measurement Challenges, and Responses (Anne L....
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This article investigates the social impact of globalization as measured by economic liberalization. This study … attempts to answer four questions using cross-section of countries: Does globalization spur human development? Is globalization … related to gender related economic development? Does globalization exacerbate income inequality? Finally, what is the impact …
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The Western Balkan countries, which are in the late transition process, fail to take advantage of the opportunities … brought by globalization and the removal of restrictions to the free flow of capital, technology, knowledge, people and … the examination of the impact of globalization on the reached level of competitiveness of the economies of the Western …
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suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …
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This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition … the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem to be sectoral shifts in employment and increasing inter …
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This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...
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