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Capital Structure and Employment Flexibility
Author: Olga Kuzmina, NES. This policy brief focuses on the relationship between employment policies and their potential…
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Transportation Infrastructure and Labor Market Integration: the Moscow Oblast Case
The model of city organization proposed by von Thünen in the beginning of the XIXth century, and then formalized by Alon…
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Latvian Unemployment is Cyclical
In terms of output decline and increase in unemployment, the economic recession in Latvia that started during the 2008-0…
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For Some Mothers More Than Others: How Children Matter for Labor Market Outcomes When Both Fertility and Female Employment Are Low
Authors: Krzysztof Karbownik and Michal Myck, CenEA. Wide spread entry of women into the labor force has been one of the…
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Becoming Entrepreneur in Belarus: Factors of Choice
This policy brief summarizes two papers by Maryia Akulava on entrepreneurship development in Belarus and outlines which…
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Recent Dynamics of Returns to Education in Transition Countries
While, in an international comparison, transition countries spend a relatively large share of their GDP on education, an…
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Inter-Regional Convergence in Russia
There was no inter-regional convergence in Russia during the 1990s but the situation changed dramatically after 2000. Wh…
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Property Rights and Internal Migration
Authors: Paul Castañeda Dower and Andrei Markevich, CEFIR. Russia currently faces an important policy challenge related…
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Who Needs a Safety Net?
One definition of safety net found on the internet is the following: “a net placed to catch an acrobat or similar perfor…
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