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Evolution or Revolution Disparities in Earnings and Household Income in the Czech Republic 1988-2002: May 15, 2007 09:51
This paper draws on income surveys covering the period 1988-2002 to illustrate the changes in inequality of earnings and household incomes, the main factors behind their disparities, and the connections between these two distributions.

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Tags: income, disparity, draw, household, czech
Reaching out : access to and use of banking services across countries: November 23, 2007 13:16
The authors (1) present new indicators of banking sector penetration across 99 countries based on a survey of bank regulatory authorities, (2) show that these indicators predict household and firm use of banking services, (3) explore the association between the outreach indicators and measures of financial, institutional, and infrastructure development across countries, and (4) relate these banking outreach indicators to measures of firms' financing constraints.

Banking Sector No comments yet
Tags: bank, household, firm, government
Who bears the cost of Russia's military draft?: November 23, 2007 17:13
The authors use data from a large nationally representative survey in Russia to analyze the distributional and welfare implications of draft avoidance as a common response to Russia's highly unpopular conscription system. They develop a simple theoretical model that describes household compliance decisions with respect to enlistment. The authors use several econometric techniques to estimate the effect of various household characteristics on the probability of serving in the army and the implications for household income.

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Tags: Russia, military, welfare, household, income
The impact of energy price changes in Moldova: November 26, 2007 17:48
This study examines the potential impact of higher energy prices on the economy of Moldova by simulating the likely macroeconomic consequences of recent and future price increases. Moreover, it estimates the direct impact on individual households using data drawn from the 2004 Household Budget Survey.

Energy and Water consumption No comments yet
Tags: Moldova, energy, price, household
Household strategies for coping with poverty and social exclusion in post-crisis Russia: 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.

Social Issues No comments yet
Tags: household, poverty, post-crisis, Russia, financial, crisis, welfare
Social transfers and social assistance - an empirical analysis using Latvian household survey data: 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)…

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Tags: social, Latvia, household, pension, unemployment
The Gas Industry in Moldova: A Burden of Ignorance or Neglect? What is More?: January 18, 2008 17:04
The problem of supplying households and industry with natural gas became a sensitive issue on the entire European continent. Lack of agreement between Russia and Ukraine, the blockade of natural gas supply in the middle of the winter of 2005 and 2006, the struggle for taking control over the gas transit lines situated on the territory of Ukraine, which neighbors Moldova, shuttered the minds in the last years and generated some dubious reactions over the existing state of relations in the former soviet region, which have been established after the „more or least pleasant divorce” of its former republics and provoking tensions with the Central and Western European states.

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Tags: gas, Moldova, household, Russia, Ukraine