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Living standards and economic vulnerability in Turkey between 1987 and 1994

Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2001

Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts … picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for … Turkey. The paper finds that Turkey does not face a problem of absolute poverty by the standards of a developing country (in …

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Labor markets, inequality and poverty in Georgia

Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2001

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …

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Channels of redistribution : inequality and poverty in the Russian transition

Commander, Simon; Tolstopiatenko, Andrei; Yemtsov, Ruslan - In: The economics of transition 7 (1999) 2, pp. 411-447

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Who bears the cost of Russia's military draft?

Lokshin, Michael - 2005

"The authors use data from a large nationally representative survey in Russia to analyze the distributional and welfare implications of draft avoidance as a common response to Russia's highly unpopular conscription system. They develop a simple theoretical model that describes household...

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