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Job Growth in Early Transition: Comparing Two Paths
Jurajda, Stepán; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
planning and ask about differences in job creation across two different transition economies: Estonia, which experienced rapid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822495
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What Drives the Speed of Job Reallocation During Episodes of Massive Adjustment?
Terrell, Katherine; Jurajda, Štepán - 2002
This paper uses individual-level data to characterize economy-wide job creation and destruction during periods of massive structural adjustment. We contrast the gradualist Czech and the rapid Estonian approach to the destruction of the communist economy to provide evidence on selected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274315
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What Drives the Speed of Job Reallocation During Episodes of Massive Adjustment?
Jurajda, Stepán; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper uses individual-level data to characterize economy-wide job creation and destruction during periods of massive structural adjustment. We contrast the gradualist Czech and the rapid Estonian approach to the destruction of the communist economy to provide evidence on selected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566548
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Job Creation, Job Destruction and Employment Growth in Transition Countries in the 90's
Faggio, Giulia; Konings, Jozef - 2001
In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274457
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Should Market Liberalization Precede Democracy? Causal Relations between Political Preferences and Development
Grosjean, Pauline; Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper is dedicated to the relation between market development and democracy. We distinguish contexts and preferences and ask whether it is true that the demand for democracy only emerges after a certain degree of market development is reached, and whether, conversely, democratization is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762150
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Job creation and job destruction in Estonia: labour reallocation and structural changes
Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - 2005
This article documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Estonia over the years 1995-2001, using a … database containing the population of officially registered firms in Estonia (all in all 52,000). Our results show that job … creation and job destruction rates have been rather high in Estonia and are comparable to the levels documented for the US. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267645
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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - 1999
This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable ?quasi-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262299
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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms : Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia
Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Fleisher, Belton M.; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004
We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition economies covering a period from 1975 through 2002. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271753
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Job Creation and Job Destruction in Estonia: Labour Reallocation and Structural Changes
Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This article documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Estonia over the years 1995-2001, using a … database containing the population of officially registered firms in Estonia (all in all 52,000). Our results show that job … creation and job destruction rates have been rather high in Estonia and are comparable to the levels documented for the US. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703200
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Job Creation, Job Destruction and Employment Growth in Transition Countries in the 90's
Faggio, Giulia; Konings, Josez - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822478