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216 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2476
Where to Work? The Role of the Household in Explaining Gender Differences in Labour Market Outcomes
Ralitza Dimova, Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2453
Employment Effects of Privatisation and Foreign Acquisition of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Yundan Gong, Holger Görg, Sara Maioli
published in: International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2007, 14(2), 197-214
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2344
Inequality and Growth in Rural China: Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?
Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, John T. Giles
published as 'Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China?' in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (557), 1281-1309
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2258
Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets: Does the State of Development Matter?
Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova, Jeffrey B. Nugent
published as 'Off-farm Labour Supply and Labour Markets in Rapidly Changing Circumstances: Bulgaria during Transition' in: Economic Systems, 2011, 35 (3), 378 - 389
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2248
Modernizing China's Growth Paradigm
Eswar Prasad, Raghuram G. Rajan
published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 331-336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2148
Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus
Marina Bakanova, Saul Estrin, Igor Pelipas, Sergei Pukovich
published in Saul Estrin, Grzegorz Kolodko and Milica Uvalic (eds.), Transition and Beyond: A Tribute to Mario Nuti, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2118
Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership: Evidence from Urban Chinese Twins
Hongbin Li, Pak-Wai Liu, Junsen Zhang, Ning Ma
published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1504 - 1520
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2066
The Caring Hand that Cripples: The East German Labor Market After Reunification (Detailed Version)
Dennis J. Snower, Christian Merkl
short version published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 375-382
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1987
Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 963-991
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1961
Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov, Hartmut Lehmann, Álmos Telegdy, Irina Vantu, Ruxandra Visan, Alexandru Voicu
published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (3), 435-457
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1958
Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data
Elizabeth Brainerd
published in: Journal of Economic History, 2010, 70 (1), 83 - 117
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1867
The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies
Nauro F. Campos, Francesco Giovannoni
published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 49 (2), 681-706
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1839
Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial
John Micklewright, Gyula Nagy
revised version published as 'The effect of monitoring unemployment insurance recipients on unemployment duration: Evidence from a field experiment' in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 180-187
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1826
Trade Liberalization and Employment Effects in Ukraine
Atanas Christev, Olga Kupets, Hartmut Lehmann
published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2008, 50 (2), 318-340
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1738
What Is Behind Stagnant Unemployment in Ukraine: The Role of the Informal Sector
Olga Kupets
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1707
Job Creation and Job Destruction in Estonia: Labour Reallocation and Structural Changes
Jaan Masso, Raul Eamets, Kaia Philips
published in: H. Hannula, S. Radoševic and N. von Tunzelmann (eds.) , Estonia, the New EU Economy, Building a Baltic Miracle. Ashgate Publishing, 2006, pp. 105-142
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1565
Mind the Gap: Unemployment in the New EU Regions
Anna Maria Ferragina, Francesco Pastore
published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22 (1), 73-113
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1485
The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002
Andrew T. Newell, Mieczyslaw Socha
published as Chapter 11 of World Bank, "Poland: Growth, Employment and Living Standards in Pre-Accession Poland", Volume 2, 2004
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1393
Do Markets Favor Women's Human Capital More than Planners?
Daniel Münich, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (2), 278-298
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1360
Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition
Oluyemisi Kuku, Peter F. Orazem, Rajesh Singh
published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (1), 33-56
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1349
Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition
J. David Brown, John S. Earle
published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (2), 229-251
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1343
What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Dana Lup
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2005, 54 (1), 33-70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1297
Worker Displacement during the Transition: Experience from Slovenia
Peter F. Orazem, Milan Vodopivec, Ruth Wu
published in: Economics of Transition, 2005, 13 (2), 311-340
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1201
Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Peter McGoldrick, Patrick Paul Walsh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1182
Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia
Belton M. Fleisher, Klara Sabirianova Peter, Xiaojun Wang
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (2), 351-370
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1151
Russian Cities in Transition: The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s
Ira N. Gang, Robert C. Stuart
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1140
The Distribution of Wages in Belarus
Francesco Pastore, Alina Verashchagina
published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (3), 351-376
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1139
Factor Endowment and Market Size in EU-CEE Trade: Would Human Capital Change the Actual Quality Trade Patterns?
Anna Maria Ferragina, Francesco Pastore
published in: Eastern European Economics, 2005, 43 (1), 5-33
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1074
Regional Unemployment and its Persistence in Transition Countries
Fabian Bornhorst, Simon Commander
published in: Economics of Tranistion and Institutional Change, 2006, 14 (2), 269-288
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1044
Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition
J. David Brown, John S. Earle
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1039
Institutional Uncertainty and European Social Union: Impacts on Job Creation and Destruction in the CEECs
Ansgar H. Belke, Matthias Göcke, Martin Hebler
published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2005, 27 (3), 345-354
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1038
Exchange Rate Volatility and Employment Growth: Empirical Evidence from the CEE Economies
Ansgar H. Belke, Ralph Setzer
published in: Economic and Social Review, 2003, 34 (3), 267-292
IZA Discussion Paper No. 986
Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany
Herbert Brücker, Parvati Trübswetter
published in: Empirica, 2007, 34 (4), 371-395
IZA Discussion Paper No. 971
Creative Destruction and Productivity Growth in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from Slovenian Manufacturing
Jan De Loecker, Jozef Konings
published as 'Job reallocation and productivity growth in a post-socialist economy: Evidence from Slovenian manufacturing' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2006, 22 (2), 388-408
IZA Discussion Paper No. 970
Fighting “Low Equilibria” by Doubling the Minimum Wage? Hungary’s Experiment
Gabor Kertesi, János Köllő
IZA Discussion Paper No. 901
Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Peter F. Orazem, Milan Vodopivec
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2009, 76(2), 553-576
IZA Discussion Paper No. 900
Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities
Mark C. Berger, Glenn C. Blomquist, Klara Sabirianova Peter
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 63 (1), 2008, 25 - 55
IZA Discussion Paper No. 893
Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change
Klara Sabirianova Peter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 884
The Optimality and Overuse of Labour in Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises
Jaan Masso, Almas Heshmati
published in: Economics of Transition, 2004, 12 (4), 683-720
IZA Discussion Paper No. 727
Benchmarking Structural Change in Transition
Martin Raiser, Mark E Schaffer, Johannes Schuchhardt
published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2004, 15 (1), 47-81
IZA Discussion Paper No. 675
Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects
Jozef Konings, Olga Kupets, Hartmut Lehmann
published in: Economics of Transition, 2003, 11 (2), 321-356
IZA Discussion Paper No. 644
Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition
J. David Brown, John S. Earle
IZA Discussion Paper No. 602
Migration in the Soviet Successor States
Lilo Locher
published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2002, 48 (1), 67-84
IZA Discussion Paper No. 601
What Drives the Speed of Job Reallocation During Episodes of Massive Adjustment?
Štepán Jurajda, Katherine Terrell
published as "Job Reallocation in Two Cases of Massive Adjustment in Eastern Europe" in: World Development, 2008, 36 (11), 2144-2169
IZA Discussion Paper No. 600
Explaining Gender Differences in Unemployment with Micro Data on Flows in Post-Communist Economies
Jana Stefanová Lauerová, Katherine Terrell
published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2007, 49 (1), 128-155
IZA Discussion Paper No. 589
Job Growth in Early Transition: Comparing Two Paths
Štepán Jurajda, Katherine Terrell
published in: Economics of Transition, 2003, 11 (2), 291-320
IZA Discussion Paper No. 572
Self-Employment and Wage Earning: Hungary During Transition
Catherine Y. Co, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2005, 9 (2), 150-165
IZA Discussion Paper No. 569
Worker Flows, Job Flows and Firm Wage Policies: An Analysis of Slovenia
John C. Haltiwanger, Milan Vodopivec
published in: Economics of Transition, 2003, 11 (2), 253-290
IZA Discussion Paper No. 564
The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants
J. David Brown, John S. Earle
published in: Economics of Transition, 2003, 11 (2), 221-252
IZA Discussion Paper No. 496
Changes in the Structure of Earnings During the Polish Transition
Michael P. Keane, Eswar Prasad
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2006, 80 (2), 389-427
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