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This study tests the theory of rationing, examining changes in household consumption behavior during the transition to … nonrationed goods. The results for Poland show a 75 percent decline in real household welfare over the transition and this welfare …
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The approach to water management worldwide is currently in transition, with a shift evident from purely centralised … socio-technical approach to implementation is vital, if RWH in the UK is to transition from novel to mainstream. …
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The education systems of EE/CIS countries have undergone negative changes during the past 16 years. My paper examines these changes, identifies their causes and proposes solutions for improvement. I find that improved educational quality is the key for raising students’ enrolment and...
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One feature common to many post-socialist transition economies is a relatively compressed wage structure in the state … acquisition and thus presents adverse consequences for the entire transition economy if a substantial portion of the labor force … outcomes, in a transition setting with matched firm and worker data collected in one of the largest provinces of Vietnam – Ho …
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In most countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, the transition to market … fall in employment since 1990 has been similar to other transition economies, leading to a sharp reduction of labor force …
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adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …
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This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed matching procedure and demonstrate...
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We present a model of neighborhood effects in wage payment delays. Positive feedback arises because each employer’s arrears affect the late payment costs faced by other firms in the same local labor market, resulting in a strategic complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on...
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How fast transition should occur and how fast privatization and/or entry should take place in formerly socialist … are emerging in transition economies: a high development equilibrium and a low development equilibrium. In the high … transition can push an economy to either the high or low development equilibrium in the long run. We concentrate on the speed …
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Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the evolution of the financing regimes. The e?ectiveness...
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