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This paper examined the male-female differentials in hourly earnings in Russia from 1996 to 2002. The gender wage gap …
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garden plot have a significant impact on the changes in consumption behavior in Russia. Regarding the macroeconomic variables …
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real exchange rate misalignments for Poland and Russia during the 1990s using the Beveridge and Nelson (1981) decomposition … crisis. The half life of an exogenous shock is found to be much shorter for Poland than for Russia in the pre-crisis period … generate different levels of misalignment and different responses to exogenous shocks. The average misalignment in Russia is …
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country samples and second, in more detail, with Brazil and Poland. Our results provide strong evidence that Russia … entrepreneurial development in Russia. We utilize Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001 and 2002 to investigate … the effects of the weak institutional environment in Russia on entrepreneurship, comparing it first with all available GEM …
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Differences in the evolution of income distribution in Poland and Russia in the post-socialist era are striking: for … example, in Poland, the gini coefficient on earnings went from 0.28 to 0.33 between 1988 and 1998 while in Russia it went from ….25 percentage points in the Russian regions between 1995 and 2001. Our results suggest that early privatization in Poland was more …
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those foreign policy issues, which are of crucial importance to Poland, Europe and transatlantic relations in both the long …
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historische Hinweise, dass dieVerbreitung von unternehmerischen Eigenschaften und Verhalten in Russland deutlich geringerist als …
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Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that within-country regional variation in inherited human capital in four such economies explains the bulk of regional variation in unemployment; we explore potential explanations. Our evidence...
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This paper studies housing tenure and labour mobility using individual data from the ECHP for five European countries. First, the effect of housing tenure on the unemployed workers' labour mobility is studied using a discrete unemployment duration model with two alternative exits to employment,...
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During the ongoing post-communist economic transitions, the relative well-being of many people is changing rapidly, and governments are not well positioned to accurately measure individual living standards. Under such circumstances, continued price controls over basic consumer goods within the...
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