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Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...

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Institutions, Markets and Men’s and Women’s Wage Inequality: Evidence from Ukraine

Ganguli, Ina; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Ukraine, the second largest country in the former Soviet bloc, is facing the challenge of rallying popular support for … micro data set for Ukraine - the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) - to determine the extent to which the …

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Determinants of Protests: Longitudinal Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

consisting of panel data collected before and after the so called "Orange" revolution in Ukraine. Our empirical approach tackles …

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Can State Language Policies Distort Students' Demand for Higher Education?

Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper takes advantage of a recent policy experiment in Ukraine's secondary education system to study the effect of …

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Zum wirtschaftspolitischen Reformfortschritt der Ukraine und zur Konditionalität der westlichen Hilfe

Thießen, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

Since the inception of transition Ukraine experienced an economic decline. Using indicators for the progress of … economic reforms in transition countries, it becomes evident that Ukraine belongs to a very small group of eastern European … this implementation together with the evaluation of Ukraine's macroeconomic performance give rise to the question as to …

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Corporate Debt Maturity Choice in Transition Financial Markets

Stephan, Andreas; Talavera, Oleksandr; Tsapin, Andriy - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

This paper investigates the determinants of liability maturity choice in transition markets. We formulate a model of firm value maximization that describes managers' choice of optimal debt structure. The theoretical predictions are tested using a unique panel of 4,300 Ukrainian firms during the...

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The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown …

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Persistence and Determinants of Firm Profit in Emerging Markets

Stephan, Andreas; Tsapin, Andriy - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

The paper studies the persistence of profit and its determinants in emerging markets. We apply Markov chain analysis, dynamic panel GMM estimation, and quantile regression techniques to a panel of approximately 3,000 Ukrainian companies. The empirical results show a moderate level of profit...

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Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine

Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia Danzer (née … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition …

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Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects

Konings, Jozef; Kupets, Olga; Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique data set of more … connection with other evidence we infer from this that Ukraine is only at the beginning of the restructuring process. The most …

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