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- Policy Risk in Action: Pension Reforms and Social Security Wealth in Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia
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June 18, 2008 16:55
The paper provides evidence on the policy risk of social security in Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia by computing the changes in the social security wealth induced by the pension reforms undertaken since the 1990s.
- (Micro)Economic Methodology and its Contributions to the Formulation and Interpretation of Rules of Private Law
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June 18, 2008 16:36
The paper reviews (in Czech) the main qualitative tools applied by (micro)economic analysis and surveys the main literature on the topic. Economics is often being criticised by its opponents for the use of unrealistic assumptions.
- Too poor to move, to poor to stay: a report on housing in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Serbia
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March 3, 2008 13:46
Stuart Lowe: Overview: Too Poor to Move, Too Poor to Stay
Martin Lux: Housing the Poor in the Czech Republic: Prague, Brno and Ostrava
Janos B. Kocsis: Th e Housing Poor in Budapest, Hungary: Situation and Perspectives
Masa Djordjevic: Reducing Housing Poverty in Serbian Urban Centers: Analysis and Policy
- The reform of the system of higher education in Slovakia - current status and perspectives
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March 3, 2008 11:42
Given the profound transformation of the overall economic system of Slovakia, according to the author there is also a need to rethink the system of financing and provision of public goods, including education, which used to be a public good provided “for free” for all.
- Strengthening municipalities in Azerbaijan
- March 3, 2008 11:18
- Issues of equity, increased drop-out rate in education system in Azerbaijan
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March 3, 2008 11:16
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the system of education in Azerbaijan with particular attention to the increasing number of school drop-outs. The issue of drop-outs is new in Azerbaijan and awareness of it among actors in the system appears to be relatively low.
- European Social Models and Growth: Where are the Eastern European countries heading?
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January 18, 2008 17:38
The authors find that as they seek to develop a social model both appropriate to their needs and consistent with EU standards, Eastern European countries must understand that a single European Social Model does not exist.
- Does Education Matter in Patience Formation? Evidence from Ugandan Villages
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January 18, 2008 17:26
The paper aims to contribute to the understanding of why there is lack of domestic savings and investments in rural parts of sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on heterogeneity in intertemporal preferences as possible explanation of this important puzzle.
- Goodwin's Predator-Prey Model with Endogenous Technological Progress
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January 18, 2008 17:25
The purpose of the paper is to re-formulate traditional Goodwin predator-prey model by including a specific differential equation describing technological progress in deterministic and/or stochastic way. A base of this system contains such variables in interest as a rate of employment, a share of labour, and different forms of a rate of the technological progress.
- Women labor market and the impact of selected policies
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January 18, 2008 17:08
In this study the author investigates the impact of the two policy means, which can negatively influence the labor supply of women in the Czech Republic. First, joint taxation of spouses was enabled. Second, the system of the parental leave influences the female participation. The current Czech system can create significant barrier to women in entry and return to the labor market. Therefore, it leads to an excessive loss of the women human capital which markedly lowers their further employability.
- Creation of the System of Contractual Savings for Housing in Belarus
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January 18, 2008 12:07
This paper analyzes the possibility of introducing a contractual savings for housing (CSH) system in Belarus for a housing finance system.
- Dividing the spoils - pensions, privatization, and reform in Russia's transition
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January 2, 2008 15:58
The authors present a political economy model in which policy is the outcome of an interaction between three actors: government (G), managers and workers (W), and transfer recipients (P). The government's objective is to stay in power, for which it needs the support of either P or W.
- Social transfers and social assistance - an empirical analysis using Latvian household survey data
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January 2, 2008 15:57
The author assesses the performance of Latvia's system of social transfers, in three ways: First, he analyzes the incidence (who receives transfers) of pensions, family allowances, unemployment benefits, and social assistance. Per capita analysis shows pensions tending to be pro-rich, and families allowances pro-poor (a finding typical in poverty analyses)…
- Household strategies for coping with poverty and social exclusion in post-crisis Russia
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January 2, 2008 15:29
What strategies have Russian households used, to cope with economic hardship in the wake of recent financial crisis? Which coping strategies have been most effective in reducing poverty for different groups of households? And how have people been able to adapt to the dramatic drop in formal cash incomes? The authors look at these questions using subjective evaluations of coping strategies used by household survey respondents to mitigate the effects of the Russian financial crisis on their welfare.
- Gender dimensions of pension reform in the Former Soviet Union
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January 2, 2008 15:27
The authors analyze the gender implications of pension reform in Kazakhstan, the Kygyz Republic, Latvia, and Moldova. The new systems deliberately penalize early retirement and reward longer careers, so that with no change in behavior or policy, women's pensions will be lower than men's on average.
- December 3, 2007 17:41
- Pension reform in Hungary : a preliminary assessment
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December 3, 2007 17:39
This paper reviews the main components and objectives of the Hungarian pension reform, and makes a preliminary assessment of the first years of its implementation.
- Is Russia restructuring ? new evidence on job creation and destruction
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December 3, 2007 17:37
The authors explore the labor dynamics of Russian enterprise restructuring, empirically assessing how patterns of job creation and destruction are related to various aspects of enterprise restructuring across firms in different sectors and regions, and to different forms, sizes, vintages, and performance characteristics of ownership.
- Rich and powerful? Subjective power and welfare in Russia
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December 3, 2007 17:34
Does "empowerment" come hand-in-hand with higher economic welfare? In theory, higher income is likely to raise both power and welfare, but heterogeneity in other characteristics and household formation can either strengthen or weaken the relationship. Survey data on Russian adults indicate that higher individual and household incomes raise both self-rated power and welfare.
- Sustainability of healthcare financing in the Western Balkans : an overview of progress and challenges
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November 23, 2007 17:12
This paper explores the major challenges to the sustainability of health sector financing in the countries of the Western Balkans - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and the province of Kosovo.
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