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Transition on the Shop Floor – The Restructuring of a Weaving Mill, Hungary 1988-97

Köllo, János - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows …

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Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals

Campos, Nauro F.; Horváth, Roman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic impacts. We find that GDP growth determines external liberalization and privatization, concentration...

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Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism

Easterlin, Richard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe life satisfaction has followed the V-shaped pattern of … asymmetric response of life satisfaction to decreases in GDP in transition countries and increases in GDP in non-transition …

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Unemployment in East and West Europe

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

evolution of unemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies. The comparison of the transition …

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Fighting “Low Equilibria” by Doubling the Minimum Wage? Hungary’s Experiment

Kertesi, Gábor; Köllo, János - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

In January 2001 the Hungarian government increased the minimum wage from Ft 25,500 to Ft 40,000. One year later the wage floor rose further to Ft 50,000. The paper looks at the short-run impact of the first hike on small-firm employment and flows between employment and unemployment. It finds...

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Institutions and Transition

Murrell, Peter - University of Maryland, Department of Economics - 2006

institutions and economists' thinking on institutions during transition. Early in transition, institutions were virtually ignored … institutional construction. Transition countries built institutions speedily but with marked variation across countries. Legal …

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Law, Relationships, and Private Enforcement: Transactional Strategies of Russian Enterprises

Hendley, Kathryn; Murrell, Peter; Ryterman, Randi - University of Maryland, Department of Economics - 1998

We examine how Russian enterprises do business with one another, focusing on the strategies used to obtain efficiency and predictability in their transactions. Using survey data, the paper analyzes the relative importance of relational contracting, self-enforcement, enterprise networks, private...

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Institutions and Firms in Transition Economies

Murrell, Peter - University of Maryland, Department of Economics - 2003

understand transition and how the experience of transition can help inform the NIE. It first shows that the NIE, as an analytical … tool, hardly played any role at all in early transition, but that strategies of transition might have been very different … practitioner of the NIE. The chapter concludes by emphasizing the lessons from transition for the NIE. The destruction of even very …

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Income Inequality During China's Economic Transition

Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John; Wang, Sangui - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns...

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STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE ROMANIAN ECONOMY

Scutaru, Cornelia; Florescu, Ionel - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting 1 (2004) 2, pp. 38-64

The current paper analyzes the transition process from the point of view of the structural changes in the Romanian …

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