Trade Liberalisation and Employment Effects in UkraineSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 50 - Trang 318-340 - 2008
Atanas Christev, Olga Kupets, Hartmut Lehmann
This paper addresses the effects of trade liberalisation on job flows. It studies the case of Ukraine where the sudden opening up of the economy to trade can be viewed as a quasi-natural experiment. We use disaggregated data on manufacturing industries and customs data on trade flows to account for shifting trade patterns after the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the Council of Mutual Econo...... hiện toàn bộ
Dynamics of Firm-level Job Flows in Slovenia, 1996–2011Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 56 - Trang 77-109 - 2014
Biswajit Banerjee, Manca Jesenko
Firm-level employment changes were associated with simultaneous high rates of gross job creation, destruction, and reallocation. These job flows primarily reflected persistent firm-level employment changes. There was considerable variation in job flow rates across sectors. Sectors that created more jobs also destroyed more jobs. Job destruction was more volatile than job creation. Relative volatil...... hiện toàn bộ
The Military Origins of Soviet IndustrializationSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 57 - Trang 669-692 - 2015
Vladimir Kontorovich
The predominant account of Soviet industrialization in Western literature is that it aimed at accelerating economic growth by concentrating investment in heavy industry, a strategy credited to Preobrazhenskii and Feldman. Using evidence from the Soviet sources, this article proposes an alternative origin of the strategy of industrialization and suggests different motives for the policy. It finds n...... hiện toàn bộ
De-internationalizing Global Banking?Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 56 - Trang 257-270 - 2014
Robert McCauley
This article discusses two models of global banking, the multinational model and the international model. The global financial crisis demonstrated the greater resilience of the multinational model to strains in the wholesale funding markets. This article reviews long-term trend in global banking toward multinational banking and how the global financial crisis reinforced this trend. In addition, th...... hiện toàn bộ