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Early Childhood Education In Russia : The Interrelation of Income Level and Parental Investment
Seliverstova, Yulia - 2021
programs, many families in Russia choose extra classes for their children. The increasing inequality in early childhood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212968
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Euler Equation with Habits and Measurement Errors : Estimates on Russian Micro Data
Khvostova, Irina - 2014
This paper presents estimates for the consumption Euler equation for Russia. The estimation is based on micro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059039
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How to Get Away with Murder in Russia : Political Support in the Times of Crisis. Evidence from the Survey Experiment
Sirotkina, Elena; Zavadskaya, Margarita - 2018
Economic crises are expected to erode domestic political support for the existing regime. However, in comparison with democracies, autocracies enjoy more of a leeway responding to economic downturns due to their ability to strengthen their clientelist ties and increase the level of repression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014120449
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Understanding the Russian Malaise : The Collapse and Recovery of Subjective Well-Being in Post-Communist Russia
Inglehart, Ronald F.; Foa, Roberto; Ponarin, Eduard; … - 2014
1982, the Russia people ranked lower on happiness and life satisfaction than the people of much poorer countries such as … collapse of the Soviet Union, subjective well-being in Russia fell to levels never seen before, reaching a low point in 1995 … been reversing itself, but in 2011 Russia still ranked slightly lower than its level in 1981 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150327
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Those Unpredictable Recessions
Smirnov, Sergey V. - 2012
Contemporary global economic life is measured in days and hours, but most common economic indicators have inevitable lags of months and sometimes quarters (GDP). Moreover, the real-time picture of economic dynamics may differ in some sense from the same picture in its historical perspective,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111488
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Social Development or Social Crisis : Modernization Theory versus World-Systems Analysis
Khutkyy, Dmytro - 2017
The study examines the contradictory claims of modernization theory and world-systems analysis regarding modern social change. While modernization theory argues a human development, world-systems analysis states a global crisis. The two theories are tested against empirical evidence from data of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961674
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The Changing Role of Intellectual Resources During the Economic Crisis of 2008-2009
Shakina, Elena - 2014
This study investigates factors of corporate success over the crisis period of 2008-2009. We advocate the idea that investments in intangibles allow a company to be better off, even if the markets go down. The hypothesis put forward in this paper was tested on a sample of more than 300 companies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056995
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Innovations and Productivity : The Shift During the 2008 Crisis
Teplykh, Grigorii - 2014
Innovations and related knowledge are important drivers of corporate success in modern economies. However the crisis of 2008 strongly influenced investment decisions including R&D expenditure. This may be explained by the fact that the crisis has changed a transformation of corporate resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149697
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Exploring Innovation Modes of Russian Companies : What Does the Diversity of Actors Mean for Policymaking?
Gokhberg, Leonid; Kuznetsova, Tatiana; Roud, Vitaliy - 2012
Recent studies of innovation behavior characteristics focus on analysis of microdata (enterprise level) as the key instrument to reveal facts and hypotheses describing the innovation activities under diverse economic, political and infrastructural conditions. This paper applies the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014040078
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From Competition to Dominance : Political Determinants of Federal Transfers in the Russian Federation
Yakovlev, Andrei A.; Marques, Israel; Nazrullaeva, Eugenia - 2012
The recent uprisings in the Middle East have cast doubt on the degree to which existing theories of autocracy can correctly identify which groups threaten the autocrats rule at any given time. As a result, these theories are unable to predict fundamental upheavals in established autocracies. Who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014041501