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Government Cash Transfers, Household Consumption, And Poverty Alleviation - The Case Of Russia

Richter, Kaspar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

The paper develops a new approach to measuring the impact of government cash transfers on poverty alleviation that takes into account endogenous reactions and consumption smoothing of households. We use the methodology to study the impact of changes in government cash benefits on poverty rates...

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Unemployment versus Mismatch of Talents: Reconsidering Unemployment Benefits

Marimon, Ramon; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

. Unemployment insurance has the standard effect of reducing employment, but also helps workers to get a suitable job. The … with calibrated parameters which only differ by the degree of unemployment insurance and assume that they are hit by a … regard as acceptable in the economy with unemployment insurance (Europe). As a result, unemployment doubles in this economy …

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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

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Efficient Wage Dispersion

Acemoglu, Daron; Shimer, Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

, equilibrium wage dispersion is necessary for the economy to approximate efficiency. Without wage dispersion, workers do not search …

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Decentralized Trade, Entrepreneurial Investment and the Theory of Unemployment

Coles, Melvyn G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper considers an equilibrium model of unemployment in a labour market where all vacancies are advertised in a newspaper. Unemployment occurs in occupations that are short on vacancies. New vacancies are created by entrepreneurial search and investment, so it may take some time before an...

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Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in …

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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data

Brainerd, Elizabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...

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