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inequality among the poor is unavoidable. Finally, a successful land reform allows for the transition of a society from an …
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Using state-level data from India over the period 1983 to 2005, this paper gauges the effect of financial deepening and … among self-employed in the rural areas, while at the same time it supported an inter-state migration trend from rural areas … inducing geographic-sectoral migration. …
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The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to re-examine this paradox in the context of efficiency wage and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy...
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We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban … city and a restricting-migration policy that imposes some costs on migrants. We show that all these policies can increase … effect on urban wages, which reduces job creation and thus migration. When these two effects are combined with search …
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. We find that decreasing the unemployment benefit in the city creates urban jobs and reduces rural-urban migration since …-urban migration. In this respect, the employment subsidy policy can backfire by raising rather than reducing urban unemployment. …
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During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of … ability to influence law enforcement. Our econometric results, for about 950 firms in five transition economies, provide …
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change over the course of transition? We analyse these issues using data from a sequence of 11 opinion surveys conducted in … employment status, income and unemployment, only affect political preferences in the later stages of the transition. This is … consistent with the predictions of the theoretical literature on political constraints during transition – as the uncertainty …
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We develop a simple model to analyse the ‘dual-track’ approach to transition to a market economy as a mechanism for …
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We survey the empirical literature analysing the process of enterprise restructuring in transition economies. The …
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labour market frictions on the process of transition. We endogenize the economic and budgetary costs of different government … policies and show that, early in transition, governments ought to subsidize state firms. Provided that inter … transition, and increases welfare. Moreover, by resorting to indirect — instead of direct — taxes, governments can bring the path …
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