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We investigate how major historical shocks affect regional trajectories of economic activity. To this end, we conduct a comparative analysis of the development of entrepreneurship in East and West Germany after World War II. The introduction of an anti-entrepreneurial socialist economy in East...
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that pre- dates socialism. How institutional context affects entrepreneurship over the course of transition is reflected by …
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This research explores the substantial growth in regional inequality within Lithuania in the post-socialist era. A few regions, especially the capital city and its environs, have been able to attract substantial foreign investment, bolstering wages and employment and easing the move to a...
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after the transition towards a market economy. Astonishingly those regions with a high share of traditional manufacturing … industries in 1989 have higher start-up rates in manufacturing even more than 10 years after transition and a vast structural …
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worker literature mainly investigates differences in the transition rates from unemployment and discouragement into … transition from unemployment into discouragement is important and displays vast inter-regional disparities implying that local …Over the last decade, alongside high unemployment rates, the number of discouraged workers remained high in Turkey …
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I thank Claire Black and Wei-Jang Huang for assistance in preparing this paper. I appreciate the comments of George Erickcek on a preliminary version of this paper. This paper was previously presented on November 20, 2009 at the 57th Annual Economic Outlook Conference of the Research Seminar in...
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the country's market transition. I show that the 1980s' Household Responsibility System (HRS), which brought family …
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This paper simulates job and fiscal impacts of Michigan's MEGA tax credit program for job creation. Under plausible assumptions about how such credits affect business location decisions, the net costs per job created of the MEGA program are simulated to be of modest size. The job creation...
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