Recently added articles from The European Journal of Comparative Economics:
Wives' work and income distribution in European countries.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... 1. Introduction Over the course of the 20th century, increasing levels of education encouraged ever greater numbers of women to enter the labour market. In fact, female activity rates in all European countries have been increasing constantly since the 1960s, while male activity ...
Measurement and analysis of child well-being in middle and high income countries.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... 1. Introduction There is a growing literature on the well-being of children. It is a result of our growing ability and productivity in the use of resources and generation of economic growth. In addition to the formation of a higher wealth, a portion of economic growth is ...
Russia's transition process in the light of a rising economy: economic trajectories in Russia's industry and agriculture.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... 1. Introduction Russia's economy is currently enjoying substantial growth. However, the determinants of this development are quite unclear. Possible explanations include the favorable development of world market prices for raw materials as well as a successful completion of the ...
Is economic convergence in New Member States sufficient for an adoption of the Euro?(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... 1. Introduction Ten countries have joined the European Union (EU) on May 1st, 2004: Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Cyprus and Malta. Bulgaria and Romania also joined the EU in January 2007. These New Member States (NMS) are ...
Transition and beyond. Essays in Honor of Mario Nuti.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Transition and beyond. Essays in Honor of Mario Nuti (1) Saul Estrin, Grzegorz W. Kolodko, Milica Uvalic (Editors) by Mario Ferrero, University of Eastern Piedmont This is a collection of essays in honor of Domenico Mario Nuti, written and edited by a group ...
Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD. Essays on Macro-Economic History.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD. Essays on Macro-Economic History (1) Angus Maddison by Vittorio Valli, University of Turin JEL codes: C82, N10, O11, P50 Keywords: World economic history, Long-run economic development, ...
The determinants of actual migration and the role of wages and unemployment in Abania: an empirical analysis.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; ... 1. Introduction Albania is one of the economically least developed countries in Europe: after the collapse of the communist regime a substantial growth was achieved but poverty at the household level is still very high. A strong link exists between poverty and unemployment, ...
Comparing direct and indirect taxation: the influence of framing on tax compliance.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; ... 1. Introduction The idea of a consumption-based tax system has gained ever greater attention in tax policy debates of recent years. In the European Union (EU), most of the ten states that became EU members in May 2004 rely more on a value-added tax than on a corporate income ...
Formal and informal institutional change: the experience of postsocialist transformation.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; ... 1. Introduction The wide-ranging experiences of post-socialist transformation in about 30 countries during the 1990s and 2000s have led to a number of surprises and puzzles for the social sciences. Two stylized facts of transformation are the striking diversity of national paths ...
The Euro's effects on trade in a dynamic setting.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; ... Introduction The argument that the euro has brought both benefits and costs, in economic terms, to the countries that gave up their currencies (and their independent monetary policies) to adopt the single currency in 1999 should by now be clear even to the layman. Yet, while ...
Twin crises in Turkey: a comparison of currency crisis models.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; ... 1. Introduction The twin crises in Turkey consist of a banking crisis in November 2000 and currency crisis that followed in February 2001.3 The crises were experienced due to a sudden increase in the demand for the dollar, which, in turn, caused the level of reserves to decrease ...
The European labour market regional dimensions.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; ... This collective volume is published at a time when, in conjunction with the enlargement of the European Union and the Lisbon agenda, regional labour market issues are once more arousing increased academic and political interest. One of the book's strengths in this respect is its wide ...
The Determinants of Actual Migration and the Role of Wages and Unemployment in Albania: an Empirical Analysis*
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract The paper explores the determinants of internal migration in Albania, adopting the Harris-Todaro approach to migration: an internal migration function is estimated using district wage and unemployment rate differentials. The aggregate level wages and unemployment, included in ...
Comparing Direct and Indirect Taxation: The Influence of Framing on Tax Compliance
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract Standard theory of the optimal mix of direct and indirect taxation implicitly assumes that compliance is not influenced by the framing of the taxes. According to our findings, this is not the case. Using an experimental approach, we examine whether framing the tax payment ...
Formal and informal institutional change: the experience of postsocialist transformation
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract Diversity of trajectories of post-socialist transforming economies is a stylized fact of this experience of system change. The paper explores the relations between change in formal and informal rules in historical perspective, discussing new institutional views about rationality ...
The Euro's Effects on Trade in a Dynamic Setting
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract This paper provides an update on estimates of the euro effect on trade integration among EMU economies, taking into account the aggregate bilateral exports of 23 OECD countries for the sample period 1988-2004. We consider 13 exporting European countries and 23 importing ...
Determinants of Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Russian Regions
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract A modification of Barro and Sala-i-Martin empirical framework of growth model is specified to examine determinants of per capita growth in 74 Russian regions during period of 1996-2005. We utilize both panel and cross-sectional data. Results imply that in general regional growth ...
Twin Crises in Turkey: A Comparison of Currency Crisis Models 1
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract This paper analyzes the twin crises in Turkey experienced in 2000 and 2001. After a detailed survey of currency crisis models, together with a brief descriptive overview of the crises in Turkey, the similarities among the twin crises in Turkey and the models that have been ...
The European Labour Market Regional Dimensions
Jan 01, 2008; ... The European Labour Market Regional Dimensions Floro Ernesto Caroleo and Sergio Destefanis (editors)1 by Peter Huber, Austrian Institute for Economic Research, Vienna This collective volume is published at a time when, in conjunction with the enlargement of the European Union and the ...
Comparing European regions.
Dec 01, 2007; ... The European continent, in the last two decades, has become an excellent case of comparative study, thanks to the possibility of contrasting "Old European" countries, based on old-established (more or less well functioning) market economies, and the "New" countries of the European Union ...