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Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries
Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009
institutional development. -- EU ; NATO ; transition economies ; institutional change ; governance … we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and NATO clearly matter for institutional development. In addition … the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903298
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How important are labor market institutions for labor market performance in transition countries?
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2009
This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional transformations. Based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932422
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Minding the happiness gap : political institutions and perceived quality of life in transition
Nikolova, Milena - 2015
Along with political and economic changes, the fall of the socialist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union brought about fundamental institutional reforms. Several studies have examined the causes of the increasing unhappiness which accompanied the transition process,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387030
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Labor markets and labor market institutions in transition economies
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2011
This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312040
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Labor market institutions and informality in transition and Latin American countries
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2012
This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009674958
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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016
context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern … difference-in-differences strategy and Eurobarometer data, we provide the first evidence that joining the EU increased average … trust towards the EU increased only in Bulgaria but not in Romania after both countries joined in 2007. Furthermore, Romania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449769
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The EU anchor thesis: transition from socialism, the institutional vacuum and membership in the European Union
Campos, Nauro - 2021
Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries diverged massively. Institutions are a main reason. The EU anchor thesis … posits that the prospect of membership in the European Union (EU) played a key role in filling in the institutional vacuum …, focusing on whether the prospect of EU membership accelerated institutional development and, if so, whether this was indeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012792626
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Calling Baumol: what telephones can tell us about the allocation of entrepreneurial talent in the face of radical institutional changes
Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2021
The aim of this paper is to test a key aspect of Baumol's theory that the allocation of entrepreneurial efforts toward its productive (e.g., start-up activity) or unproductive (e.g., rent-seeking) use depends on institutional conditions. In contrast to previous research, we study a context where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550208
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Economic reform and mortality in the former Soviet Union : a study of the suicide epidemic in the 1990s
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2001
Male suicide rates in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic countries increased substantially in the early 1990s and are now the highest in the world. To what extent is this suicide epidemic explained by the macroeconomic instability experienced by these countries in that period? Fixed effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339675
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Return migration and self-employment : evidence from Kyrgyzstan
Brück, Tilman; Mahé, Clotilde; Naudé, Wim - 2018
A common finding of the migration literature is that migrants are more likely to choose self-employment upon return to their origin countries than non-migrants. This has led to the belief that return migration stimulates entrepreneurship in source countries and hence supports economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798170