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Wage Ceilings and Floors: The Gender Gap in Ukraine’s Transition
(2008-10-21)
This paper uses new micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to examine the gender gaps across the distribution of wages in Ukraine during communism (1986), the start of transition (1991), and ...
Fairness in the WTO Trading System
(2010-10-20)
We first provide a brief critique of the utilitarian principle as a guide to fairness in the world trading system. We then turn to the alternative conception of fairness in terms of economic equity, exploring the meaning ...
Good Deflation/Bad Deflation and Japanese Economic Recovery
(2006-05-24)
Many economists dismiss the role of positive supply shocks as a cause of Japan’s deflation. Indeed, they sometimes attribute the long delay in Japan’s recovery to the mistaken view that Japan’s deflation reflects an ...
Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty
(2008-10-17)
To be competitive in the global economy, some argue that Latin American countries need to reduce or eliminate labor market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job creation and hence increase ...
Do Personality Differences Explain the Gender Pay Gap? Evidence from Three Transition Economies
(2007-09-13)
We use data from an employee survey conducted in Russia, Armenia and Kazakhstan
to study the contribution of gender differences in personality to gender differences in pay. In particular, we focus on the influence of locus ...
Why Has Unemployment Risen in the new South Africa?
(2007-09-11)
We document the rise in unemployment in South Africa since the transition in 1994. We describe the likely causes of this increase and analyze whether the increase in unemployment is due to structural changes in the economy ...