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Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labor Market Adjustment?

Lamo, Ana - 2010

This paper shows that specialized education reduces workers' mobility and hence their ability to cope with economic changes. We illustrate this point using labor force data from two countries having experienced important macroeconomic turbulence; a large economy with rigid labor markets, Poland,...

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Strategic Fertility Behaviour, Early Childhood Human Capital Investments and Gender Roles in Albania

Grogan, Louise - 2018

Preferences for male children in Albania are shown to have persisted through nearly half a century of communist rule …

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Son Targeting Fertility Behavior in Albania

Robitaille, Marie-Claire; Milla, Joniada - 2022

The collapse of communism led to highly skewed sex-ratios in Albania, which had a long patriarchal tradition before the …

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Children's Schooling and Parental Migration : Empirical Evidence on the 'Left Behind' Generation in Albania

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2010

in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause … - mainly by fathers - is very relevant in Albania where migration has represented the only viable way to cope with increasing … poverty and the absence of public resources for sustaining households' incomes. Between 1990 and 2005 in Albania 21.7% of …

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No Education, No Good Jobs? Evidence on the Relationship between Education and Labor Market Segmentation

Pages, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2021

This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....

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Implications of the Polish 1999 Administrative Reform for Regional Socio-Economic Development

Myck, Michal - 2019

On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local administration. After 20 years, only in the last case does the original structural design remain essentially unchanged. We examine the implications of this reform from the...

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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes : Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies

Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2021

This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and how firms respond to the economic...

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Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms : A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2012

This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...

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The Impact of the Transition and EU Membership on the Returns to Schooling in Europe

Patrinos, Harry A.; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2023

Countries across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are in their third decade of independence. What impact does this have on the skills premium and does accession to the European Union have an impact on the returns to education? The returns to education in 28 transition and 20 non-transition...

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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Romanian Migrants During Transition and Enlargements

Andren, Daniela - 2014

The change in Romanian political regime in 1989 has lifted the barriers for population circulation and mobility that were further more amplified in 2002 by the liberalization of Romanians' circulation in the Schengen space. In such context, the aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent...

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