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Happiness and Socio-Economic Transformations in the Russian Federation

Cerami, Alfio - 2019

This chapter examines the deep relationship existent between socio-economic transformation, welfare state restructuring and happiness, in the specific context of the Russian transition, highlighting not only the psychological repercussions of the economic, political and social change that has...

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Welfare State Developments in the Russian Federation : Oil-Led Social Policy and 'The Russian Miracle'

Cerami, Alfio - 2019

This article investigates the main welfare state developments of the Russian Federation that have occurred since the fall of communism. It argues that the contemporary welfare expansion strictly depends on high oil and gas prices, and that this oil-led social policy makes the future of the...

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Poverty and Social Structure in Russia : An Analysis of the First Decade of Transition

Cerami, Alfio - 2019

This paper has four main objectives: (1) to monitor the rise of poverty and income inequality during the first decade of Russian transition; (2 to analyze the performance of the welfare state in reducing poverty and income inequality; (3) to identify the most vulnerable groups of transition; and...

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Culture of trust and division of labor

Meier, Stephan; Stephenson, Matthew - 2015

- specifically the trust environment - and its internal structure. We show experimentally that exogenously imposed culture … endogenously leads to variation in organizational form. We prime trust using past performance from a pilot study and demonstrate … that the level of trust within an organization affects division of labor and consequently organizational productivity. This …

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Soft Budget Constraint Theories: From Centralization to the Market

Maskin, Eric; Xu, Cheng-Gang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

theory sheds light on financial crises and economic growth. …

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Weber Revisited : A Literature Review on the Possible Link between Protestantism, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Grytten, Ola Honningdal - 2020

The present paper looks at the Weber-Tawney thesis on the positive link between Protestant ethic and economic growth. Both scholars observed that Protestant areas in the Western world seemed to gain faster and more wealth than areas with less Protestants, and largely explained this by a special...

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Can EU conditionality remedy soft budget constraints in transition countries?

Brücker, Herbert; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Weise, … - 2003

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Can EU conditionality remedy soft budget constraints in transition countries?

Brücker, Herbert; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Weise, … - 2003

Soft budget constraints (SBCs) are a persistent feature of transition economies and have been blamed for i.a. a lack of fiscal consolidation and sluggish growth. EU eastward enlargement has - among other things - been conditioned on tackling SBCs. This paper analyzes such outside conditionality...

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Trust versus illusion : what is driving demonetization in the former Soviet Union?

Marin, Dalia - In: The economics of transition 10 (2002) 1, pp. 173-200

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Trust vs illusion : what is driving demonetization in Russia?

Marin, Dalia - 2000

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