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Determinants of inequality in transition countries : market changes and limited redistribution contributed to high income and wealth inequality growth in Eastern Europe

Brzeziński, Michał; Sałach, Katarzyna - 2022

High levels of economic inequality may lead to lower economic growth and can have negative social and political impacts … significantly more than previously suggested. Currently, the average Gini index (a common measure) of inequality in Eastern Europe … is about 3 percentage points higher than in the rest of Europe. This rise in inequality was initially driven by …

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Inequality and informality in transition and emerging countries

Dell' Anno, Roberto - 2016

Higher inequality reduces capital accumulation and increases the informal economy, which creates additional employment … links between inequality and informality because badly designed informality-reducing policies may increase inequality …

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Returns to language skills in transition economies : speaking English has its benefits in transition countries but can it supersede Russian?

Mavisakalyan, Astghik - 2017

In many transition countries, the collapse of communism ushered in language reforms to adapt to the newfound independence from the Soviet Union and openness to the rest of the world. Such reforms may have implications for individuals’ economic opportunities, since foreign language proficiency...

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Post-enlargement emigration and new EU members' labor markets : outmigration has contributed to increasing wages and decreasing unemployment in the new EU member states but may als...

Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2014

The recent EU enlargements into Central and Eastern Europe and increased labor mobility within the Union provide a unique opportunity to evaluate the labor market effects of emigration. Outmigration has contributed to higher wages for stayers, as well as to lower unemployment in the source...

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Skill mismatch and overeducation in transition economies : substantial skill shortages coexist with overeducation, affecting both young and old workers

Kupets, Olga - 2015

Large imbalances between the supply and demand for skills in transition economies are driven by rapid economic restructuring, misalignment of the education system with labor market needs, and underdeveloped adult education and training systems. The costs of mismatches can be large and...

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The effects of privatization on exports and jobsCan the privatization of state-owned enterprises generate a virtuous cycle between exports and employment?

Todō, Yasuyuki - 2016

The privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOE) in transition economies has often been found to improve employment and productivity of privatized SOEs, despite policymakers’ fears regarding possible job cuts. This positive effect can be enhanced if privatization also promotes firms’...

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Can government policies reverse undesirable declines in fertility? : government policies can have a modest effect on raising fertility, but broader social changes lowering fertilit...

Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2014

Since 1989 fertility and family formation have declined sharply in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Fertility rates are converging on - and sometimes falling below - rates in Western Europe, most of which are below replacement levels. Concerned about a shrinking and aging...

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Informal employment in emerging and transition economies : reducing informality requires better enforcement, more reasonable regulation, and economic growth

Slonimczyk, Fabián - 2022

In developing and transition economies as much as half the labor force works in the informal sector (or "shadow economy"). Informal firms congest infrastructure and other public services but do not contribute the taxes needed to finance them. Informal workers are unprotected against such...

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Is the post-communist transition over? : support for economic liberalization reforms is essential, but it grows stronger only where societies experience the effects of reversing th...

Douarin, Elodie; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2022

reversing these reforms (i.e. corruption, inequality of opportunity). This point is illustrated through the example of the post …

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Childcare expansion and mothers' employment in post-socialist countries : a range of other policies and changes are needed for childcare expansion to increase mothers' labor supply

Lovász, Anna - 2016

In 2002, the EU set targets for expanding childcare coverage, but most of the post-socialist countries are behind schedule. While childcare expansion places a heavy financial burden on governments, low participation in the labor force by mothers, especially those with children under the age of...

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