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beginning of transition. The paper examines the relationship between aggregate employment and macroeconomic developments in … these countries, emphasizing the changing interaction between aggregate output and employment, the role of wages and of … labor market flexibility in determining the ability of these economies to provide suitable employment for their citizens …
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data from 1992 to 2005 on 97 German regions to analyze recent convergence in self-employment rates. An astonishing catching … regions have achieved convergence with West German self-employment rates and some have not. …
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data from 1992 to 2005 on 97 German regions to analyze recent convergence in self-employment rates. An astonishing catching … regions have achieved convergence with West German self-employment rates and some have not. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008494224
This paper explores the short-term employment effect of deregulating job protection forregular workers and how it … of sectoral employment to largejob protection deregulation shocks depend crucially on the state of the economy at the …
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We summarize the empirical literature on regional labour market development in transition. This literature suggests … that transition has been associated with increased regional disparities and there is some indication of polarisation … migration, wage flexibility and capital mobility. Migration is lower in most transition economies than in the EU and capital …
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The North Korean economy has been a statistical black hole for decades but is undergoing substantial transformations. Rapid post-war industrialisation was not sustained beyond the mid-1960s and South Korea’s economy far outpaced North Korea’s during the next three decades, during which trend...
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Since independence in 1991, Uzbekistan has pursued a gradual approach to the transition from planned to market economy …
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East Germany remains unique among the transition economies. Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it became … well as local capacities. Third, the Kohl government's policy towards East German transition, driven by short …
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’. Ukraine and Russia began the market transition with broadly similar institutions, industrial structures and levels of … transition.<P>Le secteur manufacturier russe et la menace du « syndrome néerlandais » Comparaison du développement de la …’industrie manufacturière en Russie serait affectée par le ‘syndrome néerlandais’. L’Ukraine et la Russie ont commencé leur transition vers l …
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Regions and industries are not isolated islands; so, when evaluating productivity growth, regional and sectoral growth paths should not be expected to generate independently. Moreover, accounting for spatial interactions via econometric models has become normal practice; but modelling...
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