Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...

Countries across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are in their third decade of independence. What impact does this have on the skills premium and does accession to the European Union have an impact on the returns to education? The returns to education in 28 transition and 20 non-transition...

Assessments of the Russian invasion of Ukraine are limited to 20th century ideas of conquest/colonialism. They are tied to ideological frameworks of human history where ill-defined concepts of liberal democracy and totalitarian states are juxtaposed as if there were established typologies of...

Russian membership of the Council of Europe came to an end on 16 March 2022. In an unprecedented move, prompted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Committee of Ministers excluded the Russian Federation from the Organisation. As a consequence, Russia also ceased to be bound by the ECHR, with...

An empirical neoclassical growth model reveals that foreign investment incrementally contributed to the economic transition of 27 countries in Central and Eastern Europe during the transition period 1989 to 2003. The model departs from the theoretical and applied growth literatures by estimating...

Review of Nina Bandelj: quot;From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europequot;, Princeton 2007: Princeton University Press, xviii, 303 pages

From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a...

The paper analyze the economic models of the well-known Eurasianist doctrine of Russian imperial thinking and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). In the modern era of globalization, an alliance of countries on the basis of the Eurasianist economic model is impossible to establish. The newly...