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We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and...
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, but increased slightly during the transition, while job destruction rose markedly. Heterogeneity in firm employment change … during the socialist period, while they have made a strong positive contribution during the transition. Privatization and …
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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...
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adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …
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We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland. We find that inequality in … increased earnings inequality during transition. However, our decomposition of the sources of the increase in inequality …
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In this paper we estimate the impact of transition on earnings inequality using data across Polish regions 1994 … relationship between earnings inequality and the stage of transition across regions remains when we apply an infrastructure …
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economic convergence may push up inflation rates in transition economies. Cyclical effects and regulated prices are found to be … exchange rate plays a prominent (but declining) role in transition economies. …
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The introduction of the 2006 Norwegian shareholder income tax was announced in advance, and it increased top marginal tax rates on individual dividend income from zero to 28 percent. We document strong timing effects on dividend payout on a large panel of non-listed corporations, with a surge of...
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The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … in transition, including the relatively low importance of unemployment and the existence of poverty even among households … with employment. Poverty determinants change over time in line with the experience of transition and restructuring. …
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Interregional differentials in nominal wages in the Russian Federation are huge compared to other countries. Using the NOBUS micro-data and a methodology based on the estimation of the wage equation augmented by aggregate regional characteristics, we show that these differentials have a...
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