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216 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5836
Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition?
Roberto Golinelli, Riccardo Rovelli
revised version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 30, 112-137
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5738
The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies: An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities
Oluwarotimi Owolabi, Sarmistha Pal
published as 'Does business networking boost firms' external financing opportunities? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe' in: Applied Financial Economics, 2013, 23 (5), 415-432
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5610
Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?
Ralitza Dimova, Ira N. Gang, Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou, Daniel Hoffman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5588
Labor Market Adjustment: Is Russia Different?
Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov
published in: The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy, Oxford, OUP, 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5383
Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li, Ludmila Nivorozhkina
published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2011, 35 (5), 897-920
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5365
Evolution of Employment Protection Legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic States, 1985-2009
Alexander Muravyev
revised version published in: Europe-Asia Studies, 2014, 66 (8), 1270-1294
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4919
Economic Reform, Education Expansion, and Earnings Inequality for Urban Males in China, 1988-2007
Xin Meng, Kailing Shen, Sen Xue
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41 (1), 227–244
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4872
Explaining Rising Returns to Education in Urban China in the 1990s
Xuejun Liu, Albert Park, Yaohui Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4673
How Important Are Labor Market Institutions for Labor Market Performance in Transition Countries?
Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev
revised version published in: Economics of Transition, 2012, 20 (2), 235-269
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4483
Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries
Ansgar H. Belke, Ingo Bordon, Inna Melnykovska, Rainer Schweickert
published in: Economics of Transition, 2011, 19 (4), 667-692
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4454
20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity
Tilman Brück, Heiko Peters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4277
The Responsiveness of Remittances to the Oil Price: The Case of the GCC
George S Naufal, Ali Termos
published in: OPEC Energy Review, 2009, 33 (3/4), 184-197
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4257
Does Labor Supply Respond to a Flat Tax? Evidence from the Russian Tax Reform
Denvil Duncan, Klara Sabirianova Peter
revised version published as 'Does Labour Supply Respond to a Flat Tax?" in: Economics of Transition, 2010, 18 (2), 365 - 404
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4233
Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter, Dmitriy Stolyarov
revised version published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010, 13 (1), 209 - 237
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4224
Transition Fatigue? Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Data
Riccardo Rovelli, Anzelika Zaiceva
substantially revised version published as 'Did Support for Economic and Political Reforms Increase During the Post-Communist Transition, and If So, Why?' in: The Economics of Transition, 2013, 21 (2), 193-240.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4223
Income Tax Flattening: Does It Help to Reduce the Shadow Economy?
Klara Sabirianova Peter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4208
"It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma": Roma Discrimination and Returns to Education in South Eastern Europe
Niall O'Higgins
revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31(2) 163-187
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4204
Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982 - 2000
Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Rachel Connelly, Chen Lan, Lixin Tang
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46 (2), 261 - 294
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4148
A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority
Margaret Maurer-Fazio, James W. Hughes, Dandan Zhang
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31 (2), 138-162
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4142
Temporary Labour Migration and Welfare at the New European Fringe: A Comparison of Five Eastern European Countries
Alexander M. Danzer, Barbara Dietz
substantially revised version published as 'Labour Migration from Eastern Europe and the EU’s Quest for Talents' in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2014, 52 (2), 183-199
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4113
The Finnish Great Depression: From Russia with Love
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Enrique G. Mendoza, Linda L. Tesar
published in: American Economic Review 2012, 102(4), 1619-1643
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4060
Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox
Richard A. Easterlin, Laura Angelescu McVey
published in: R.A. Easterlin, Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle, Chapter 5, Oxford University Press, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3958
Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness
J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach
published in: American Political Science Review, 2009, 103(2), 264-283
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3683
Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis
J. David Brown, John S. Earle
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3527
Why Populist Democracy Promotes Market Liberalization
Pauline Grosjean, Claudia Senik
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3484
The Emerging Aversion to Inequality: Evidence from Poland 1992–2005
Irena Grosfeld, Claudia Senik
published in: Economics of Transition, 2010, 18 (1), 1–26
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3457
The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus
Francesco Pastore, Alina Verashchagina
published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labour Markets and Economic Development, London: Routledge, 2009
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3454
The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition
Simon Appleton, John Knight, Lina Song, Qingjie Xia
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2009, 45, (2), 256-275
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3428
The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm: First Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002
Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann, Anzelika Zaiceva
published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2008, 41 (2-3), 157-180.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3409
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism
Richard A. Easterlin
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 71 (2), 130-145
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3350
Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002
Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann, Mark E Schaffer
revised version published in: Industrial Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (2), 504-531.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3282
Are Oligarchs Productive? Theory and Evidence
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Yegor Grygorenko
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 36 (1), 17-42
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3269
Informal Employment Relationships and Labor Market Segmentation in Transition Economies: Evidence from Ukraine
Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3267
Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Klara Sabirianova Peter
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 117(3), 504-554
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3228
Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine
Tilman Brück, Alexander M. Danzer, Alexander Muravyev, Natalia Danzer
revised version published as 'Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, 38 (2), 123-145
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3202
From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of Skilled Workers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States
Jan Rutkowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3152
Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Romania: From Planned Equality to Market Inequality?
Daniela Andrén, Thomas Andrén
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3079
When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell
published in: Klaus Liebscher, Josef Christl, Peter Mooslechner (eds.), Foreign Direct Investment in Europe: A Changing Landscape, 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2889
Should Market Liberalization Precede Democracy? Causal Relations between Political Preferences and Development
Pauline Grosjean, Claudia Senik
published as "Democracy, Market Liberalization and Political Preferences" in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93(1), 365-381
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2801
How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia
Polona Domadenik, Janez Prašnikar, Jan Svejnar
published in: Review of Development Economics, 12(1), 193-208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2798
Unemployment in East and West Europe
Daniel Münich, Jan Svejnar
published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (4), 681-694
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2796
When Does Transition Increase the Gender Wage Gap? An Application to Belarus
Francesco Pastore, Alina Verashchagina
published in: Economics of Transition, 2011, 19 (2), 333-369
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2791
China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European Economies
Jan Svejnar
published in: L. Brandt and T. Rawski (eds), China’s Great Economic Transformation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2678
Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform: Econometric Evidence from Hungary (1986-2004)
Nauro F. Campos, Dean Jolliffe
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2007, 21 (3), 509-526
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2644
The Polish Wage Inequality Explosion
Andrew T. Newell, Mieczyslaw Socha
published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (4), 733-758
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2638
Does Reform Work? An Econometric Examination of the Reform-Growth Puzzle
Ian Babetskii, Nauro F. Campos
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2011, 39 (2), 140-158
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2620
A New Regional Geography of Europe? The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements
Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2533
Beautiful Serbia
Holger Bonin, Ulf Rinne
revised version published as 'Beautiful Serbia’ - objective and subjective outcomes of active labour market policy in a transition economy" in: Economics of Transition, 2014, 22(1), 43-67
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2511
Labor Market Dynamics in Romania During a Period of Economic Liberalization
Benoit Dostie, David E. Sahn
updated version: visit SSRN
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2502
Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism
John Beirne, Nauro F. Campos
published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (1), 57-76
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