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Abstract [en]
Transition Economics focuses on the transformation of a socialist economic system to market economy, which is of interest both because of its policy relevance and its importance to economic theory. As transition was one of the most important economic events of the last century, the study of Transition Economy may help us to understand the difficulties, surprises, and obstacles when a society undergoes profound change. Moreover, it may develop our knowledge of the capitalist economic system and its institutions.
The dissertation consists of two different topics within Transition Economics. The first three papers, based on three different data sets, focus on various aspects of the Russian labour market. Theses papers include analyses about the ways people search for work, how unemployment duration is affected by different characteristics, but also how people divide the time outside the paid labour market. This may provide new insights on the Russian labour market, and hopefully also deepen our understanding of labour markets in general.
The fourth paper, based on a fourth data set, takes a macro perspective and is concerned with transition and terrorism. It has been claimed that with new democracies, an increased risk of terrorism follows. Therefore, in the final paper, the potential connection between terrorism and transitional progress is analysed.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Växjö: Växjö University Press, 2008. p. 135
Series
Acta Wexionensia, ISSN 1404-4307 ; 148/2008
Keywords
transition economics, labour market, Russia, terrorism
National Category
Economics
Research subject
Economy, Economics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-2238 (URN)978-91-7636-617-2 (ISBN)
Public defence
2008-10-03, Myrdal, Växjö universitet, Växjö, 10:00
Opponent
Supervisors
2008-09-102008-09-102020-07-07Bibliographically approved