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Safety net still in transition: labour market incentive effects of social support in Poland and Germany

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - In: Bank i Kredyt 41 (2010) 3, pp. 5-34

Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by now complete. However, the route Polish …

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Sustainable Development within Planetary Boundaries: A Functional Revision of the Definition Based on the Thermodynamics of Complex Social-Ecological Systems

Muys, Bart - In: Challenges in Sustainability 1 (2013) 1, pp. 41-52

discourse of sustainable development, by offering a more quantitative tool to monitor and guide the transition of human society …

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Gender and time allocation differences in Taganrog, Russia

Löfmark, Monika Hjeds - In: electronic International Journal of Time Use Research 4 (2007) 1, pp. 69-92

Data from a time-use survey made in 1997 and 1998 for the city of Taganrog, Russia, is used to analyse the socio-economic determinants of allocation of time and the gender division of housework among mar-ried/cohabiting couples. The main objective of this essay is to identify and assess the...

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Multi-Family Households in a Labour Supply Model: A Calibration Method with Application to Poland

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

transition and developing countries – the distinction of single versus multi-family (“complex”) households. We propose a method …

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A note on poverty in Kosovo

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2005

Kosovo is a war-torn corner of the former Yugoslavia, where a civil war between ethnic Albanians and ethnic Serbs raged during most of the 1990s. We examine the incidence and depth of poverty and some of its correlates in post-conflict Kosovo using the Living Standards Measurement Survey.

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Ethnic conflict and economic disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2006

Using the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household survey from post-conflict Kosovo we investigate the comparative economic well-being of Serbs and Albanians. An Oaxaca decomposition shows Serb households are both better endowed with income generating characteristics, such as...

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Energy security, poverty and vulnerability in Central Asia and the wider European neighbourhood

Slay, Ben - 2009

-state to the household, and particularly to poor households in the transition and developing economies of the former Soviet …

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THE ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURAL POLICIES IN TRANSITION –ROMANIA’S CASE

Gavrilescu, Dinu - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting (2003) 1, pp. 22-34

The transition in the CEE countries had different evolutions, influenced both by the former socialist agricultural …

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Entry to and Exit from Poverty in Russia: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Denisova, Irina - Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), New … - 2007

Long-term sustainability requires social stability and hence could be undermined by high poverty levels. Still more than twenty five million Russians have incomes that are lower than subsistence level. Effective policies to fight poverty are to be based on clear understanding of its determinants...

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Perceptions of Transition and the Crisis in Macedonia

Shukarov, Miroljub - In: Croatian Economic Survey 14 (2012) 1, pp. 107-131

This paper provides an analysis of people’s perceptions about the effects of the transition process and economic crisis … economic problems that have occurred during transition. Their expectations had been high in respect of economic efficiency but … transition has not brought high employment or quality of life closer to the EU average. In fact, unemployment rates have …

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