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Employment and Wages in Enterprises Under Communism and in Transition: Evidence From Central Europe and Russia
(2000-06-01)
This paper presents a comparative analysis of employment and wage behavior of firms in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Russia during the late 1980s to the early 1990s. The four main findings are: 1) There ...
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development:Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
(2005-01-01)
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies ...
Defensive and Strategic Restructuring of Firms during the Transition to a Market Economy
(2003-02-01)
We develop a theoretical framework and provide empirical estimates of the extent of several forms of restructuring in 130 privatized firms in a model transition economy (Slovenia) during the 1996-1998 period. In view of ...
The effects of optimal time of day on persuasion processes in older adults
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2007-05)
Past research demonstrates that the majority of older adults (60 years and older) perform resource-demanding tasks better in the morning than in the afternoon or evening. The authors ask whether this time-of-day effect ...
How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia
(2007-05)
Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&D expenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature ...
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
(2007-06)
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence among all firms as well as a subset of firms ...
On models of racial prejudice and urban residential structure
(Elsevier, 1977-07)
Economists have studied the effects of racial prejudice on urban residential structure using a set of models that focus on conditions at the border between the black and white areas. This paper is a review of the theoretical ...
Electoral and welfare consequences of political manipulation of the economy
(Elsevier, 1985-06)
This paper examines the long-term electoral and welfare consequences of repeated strategies whereby a political office-holder induces cycles in economic variables to maximize his chances of re-election. Unlike other studies ...
Discovering manipulated social choices: The coincidence of cycles and manipulated outcomes
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Martinus Nijhoff Publishers ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1986-01)