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Russians’ 'Impressionable Years' : Life Experience During the Exit from Communism and Putin-era Beliefs
Pyle, William - 2020
, from the first wave of the Life in Transition Survey, I show that a range of attitudes – including diminished support for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826361
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Russians' "Impressionable Years" : Life Experience During the Exit from Communism and Putin-Era Beliefs
Pyle, William - 2020
, from the first wave of the Life in Transition Survey, I show that a range of attitudes – including diminished support for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830108
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Russians' "impressionable years" : life experience during the exit from communism and Putin-era beliefs
Pyle, William - 2020
, from the first wave of the Life in Transition Survey, I show that a range of attitudes – including diminished support for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234430
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Non-linear geographics and the economics of transition and democratization
Brezis, Elise S.; Verdier, Thierry - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of geography on the transition process in authoritarian political … simple model of transition and democratization is presented wherein we show that the effectiveness of repression by the … country to start a transition process towards democratization is not necessarily the one nearest to the free world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336055
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Twenty years of political transition
Treisman, Daniel - 2010
transition can be parsimoniously explained by two variables: the length of time the country spent under a communist regime and … ; transition ; post-communism ; Islam …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661296
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Gender inequality in education: Political institutions or culture and religion?
Cooray, Arusha; Potrafke, Niklas - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2010
We investigate empirically whether political institutions or culture and religion underlie gender inequality in education. The dataset contains up to 157 countries over the 1991-2006 period. The results indicate that political institutions do not significantly influence education of girls:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673505
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Agricultural policies in Kazakhstan
Petrick, Martin; Pomfret, Richard - 2016
Agriculture plays an important part in Kazakhstanś self-image, and continues to be a significant economic sector, employing about a third of the workforce. In the two decades since independence, agriculture has experienced dramatic swings in performance and in public policy. During the 1990s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455174
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Wage inequality and structural change
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Smyk, Magdalena - 2018
of micro data sets from between 1980's and 2010 for both advanced market economies and economies undergoing transition … from central planning to market based system. We show that wage inequality was initially lower in transition economies and … between structural change and wages in both advanced and post-transition economies, despite the predictions from skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011779125
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Wage Inequality and Structural Change
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Smyk, Magdalena - 2017
of micro data sets from between 1980's and 2010 for both advanced market economies and economies undergoing transition … from central planning to market based system. We show that wage inequality was initially lower in transition economies and … between structural change and wages in both advanced and post-transition economies, despite the predictions from skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816522
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Wage inequality and structural change
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Smyk, Magdalena - 2018
of micro data sets from between 1980's and 2010 for both advanced market economies and economies undergoing transition … from central planning to market based system. We show that wage inequality was initially lower in transition economies and … between structural change and wages in both advanced and post-transition economies, despite the predictions from skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778902