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Inequality of access to opportunities and socioeconomic mobility : evidence from the Life in Transition Survey

Cojocaru, Alexandru - 2019

Expectations of future socioeconomic mobility are an important determinant of current policy preferences. But how may these expectations be formed? Using Life in Transition survey data for a large set of transition economies and several Western European countries, this paper examines the link...

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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 …

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No education, no good jobs? Evidence from the relationship between education and labor market segmentation

Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007

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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Evaluating the gender wage gap in Georgia, 2004 - 2011

Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2013

This paper evaluates the gender wage gap among wage workers along the wage distribution in Georgia between 2004 and 2011, based on the recentered influence function (RIF) decomposition approach developed in Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2009). We find that the gender wage gap decreases along the...

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External instability in transition: Applying Minsky's theory of financial fragility to international markets

Malyshava, Liudmila - 2018

This inquiry argues that the successful completion of the transition process in the post-Soviet economies is constrained by the prevailing social structure and low levels of technological progress, both of which require institutional reforms aimed at increasing growth in national income,...

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