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Minding the happiness gap : political institutions and perceived quality of life in transition
Nikolova, Milena - 2015
increasing unhappiness which accompanied the transition process, including deteriorating public goods, rising inequality, income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387030
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Happy moves? : assessing the link between life satisfaction and emigration intentions
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015
It has been shown that higher levels of subjective well-being lead to greater work productivity, better physical health and enhanced social skills. Because of these positive externalities, policymakers across the world should be interested in attracting and retaining happy and life-satisfied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515268
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Informal employment in transition countries : empirical evidence and research challenges
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2014
Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457410
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When does FDI have positive spillovers? : evidence from 17 transition market economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2013
We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227718
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Inequality and well-being in transition economies: A non-experimental test of inequality aversion
Cojocaru, Alexandru - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
This paper examines the link between inequality and individual well-being using household survey data from 27 … Transition Economies, where income inequality increased considerably since 1989. A test of inequality aversion in individual … preferences that draws on the Fehr and Schmidt (QJE, 1999) specification of inequality aversion is proposed, and the difficulties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370128
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The size and development of the shadow economies of 22 transition and 21 OECD countries
Schneider, Friedrich - 2002
Using the currency demand and DYMIMIC approaches estimates are presented about the size of the shadow economy in 22 Transition and 21 OECD countries. Over 2001/2002 in 21 OECD countries is the average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) 16.7% of "official" GDP and of 22...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411840
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Understanding interhousehold transfers in a transition economy : evidence from Russia
Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - 2002
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to describe and model the determinants of interhousehold transfers. Russian households have experienced large reductions in income during the post-Soviet transition period, with a particularly severe decline occurring in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413334
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Job growth in early transition : comparing two paths
Jurajda, Štěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2002
Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in this sector in terms of niches left from central planning and ask about differences in job creation across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413646
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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern histories, there is no evidence on how it affected the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449769
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Migrants' remittances : channelling globalization
Anghel, Remus Gabriel; Piracha, Matloob; Randazzo, Teresa - 2015
In the past twenty years the ever-growing levels of migrants' remittances made state agencies, international organizations, scholars and practitioners to increasingly consider remittances as one of the main engines to promote globalization and growth in the developing world. By transferring home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388130