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Determinants of poverty during transition: household survey evidence from Ukraine
Brück, Tilman; Danzer, Alexander M.; Muravyev, Alexander; … - 2007
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264986
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Couple's labor supply, taxes, and the division of housework in a gender-neutral lab
Schröder, Melanie; Burow, Norma - 2016
We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to investigate intra-couple labor supply decisions and the division of housework under individual and joint income taxation systems. In order to eliminate problems of endogenous intra-couple time use decisions, we exogenously varied not only the taxation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507455
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Fathers, parental leave and gender norms
Unterhofer, Ulrike; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2017
Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in parental leave schemes. In this paper, we analyze whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638449
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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271359
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Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? A microsimulation study for Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2008
In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal minimum wage of € 7.5 per hour on the basis of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324261
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Fiscal Federalism: Normative Criteria for Evaluations, Developments in Selected OECD Countries, and Empirical Evidence for Russia
Thießen, Ulrich - 2005
Criteria for evaluation of systems of fiscal federalism are derived from the current state of the theory of fiscal federalism. In a second step we provide an overview of developments of fiscal federalism systems in OECD countries highlighting some existing trends. Third, an overview of Russia?s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260874
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Modelling the Structural Change of Transition Countries
Thießen, Ulrich; Gregory, Paul R. - 2005
The rapid changes in the transition economies must be evaluated in a comparative context. This paper provides a … extent and speed with which the structures of the transition economies are converging towards other country groups ranked … according to income levels. This exercise provides an alternate measure of transition ?success? which is grounded in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260875
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Are interregional wage differentials in Russia compensative?
Oshchepkov, Aleksey - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264987
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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: crosscountry and time-series evidence from the BEEPS surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2008
This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed … cover thousands of firms from virtually all transition countries over a long time period (1996-99 through 2002-05), as well … convergence of transition countries with developed market economies in a number of dimensions. The pattern of growth at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271080
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Power utility re-regulation in East European and CIS transformation countries (1990-1999) : an institutional interpretation
von Hirschhausen, Christian R.; Opitz, Petra - 2001
This paper analyzes the process of power utility re-regulation in Eastern Europe and the CIS during the decade of systemic transformation (1990-1999); in particular, it explores reasons why early attempts to introduce competition-oriented reform models have not succeeded. We discuss advantages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274266