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Former communist party membership and bribery in the post-socialist countries

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Hinks, Timothy - 2018

bribery, 25 years after the fall of communist rule. Data come from a large representative survey, conducted in post …. Overall, our findings suggest that the proclivity to corruption of the former Communist party members has been transmitted … through family and thus sustained over time, contributing to corruption decades after the demise of the Socialist bloc. …

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Equal before luck? : well-being consequences of personal deprivation and transition

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna; Rosello-Roig, Melcior - 2025

transition (or regime change), can give rise to significant long-lasting effects on people's health and well-being. We study this …'s health and mental well-being. We study the effect of the timing of the personal shocks, alongside the additional effect of … evidence of the detrimental effects of shocks on a series of relevant health and well-being outcomes. Second, we show evidence …

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Reforms that keep you at home : the effects of economic transition on migration

Guzi, Martin; Mikula, Stepan - 2018

Theory asserts that individuals' migration decisions depend more on their expectations about future income levels than on their current income levels. We find that the implementation of market-oriented reforms in post-communist countries, by forming good economic prospects, has reduced...

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Gender preferences in Central and Eastern Europe as reflected in partnership and fertility outcomes

Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika; Wowczko, Izabela - 2021

The decisions of parents following the birth of their first child concerning subsequent fertility, and the stability of their relationship can be used as a reflection of broader gender preferences. We study these decisions to identify gender preferences in six Central and Eastern European...

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How important are labor market institutions for labor market performance in transition countries?

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2009

This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional transformations. Based...

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Financial development and economic growth : evidence from ten new EU members

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2014

This paper reviews the main features of the banking and financial sector in ten new EU members, and then examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in these countries by estimating a dynamic panel model over the period 1994-2007. The evidence suggests that the...

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In transit : the well-being of migrants from transition and post-transition countries

Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - 2014

The extant literature has focused on migration's consequences for the receiving countries. In this paper, we ask a different but important question: how much do migrants gain from moving to another country? Using Gallup World Poll data and a methodology combining statistical matching with...

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Informal employment in transition countries : empirical evidence and research challenges

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2014

Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its...

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Minding the happiness gap : political institutions and perceived quality of life in transition

Nikolova, Milena - 2015

Along with political and economic changes, the fall of the socialist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union brought about fundamental institutional reforms. Several studies have examined the causes of the increasing unhappiness which accompanied the transition process,...

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Labor markets and labor market institutions in transition economies

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2011

This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...

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