Journal of Comparative Economics

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Volume 33, issue 4, 2005

Introduction: Poverty and labor markets in China pp. 641-643

Xin Meng

Has China crossed the river? The evolution of wage structure in urban China during reform and retrenchment pp. 644-663

Simon Mark Appleton, Lina Song and 夏庆杰

Wage inequality and between-firm wage dispersion in the 1990s: A comparison of rural and urban enterprises in China pp. 664-687

Xiao-yuan Dong

Migration and rural poverty in China pp. 688-709

Yang Du, Albert Park and Sangui Wang

Poverty, inequality, and growth in urban China, 1986-2000 pp. 710-729

Xin Meng, Robert George Gregory and Youjuan Wang

Economic returns to schooling in urban China, 1988 to 2001 pp. 730-752

Junsen Zhang, Yaohui Zhao, Albert Park and Xiaoqing Song

Sources of real exchange rate fluctuations in China pp. 753-771

Tao Wang

How and why transition made income inequality increase in urban Russia: A local study pp. 772-787

Bjorn Gustafsson and Ludmila Nivorozhkina

The patterns and determinants of longevity in Russia's regions: Evidence from panel data pp. 788-813

Oleksiy Ivaschenko

Fiscal federalism in rentier regions: Evidence from Russia pp. 814-834

Raj M. Desai, Lev Freinkman and Itzhak Goldberg

The sequencing of reform in transition economies pp. 835-850

David Barlow and Roxana Radulescu

Volume 33, issue 3, 2005

Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies in the CIS Countries: Between the EU and Russia pp. 421-424

Lucio Vinhas de Souza

International capital markets and exchange rate stabilization in the CIS pp. 425-440

Gunther Schnabl

Does money matter in the CIS? Effects of monetary policy on output and prices pp. 441-461

Martha Starr

Money demand and inflation in dollarized economies: The case of Russia pp. 462-483

Nienke Oomes and Franziska Ohnsorge

Monetary policy rules for Russia pp. 484-499

Akram Esanov, Christian P. Merkl and Lucio Vinhas de Souza

In search of the liquidity effect in Ukraine pp. 500-516

Olena Bilan

Incentives for CEOs with multitasks: Evidence from Chinese state-owned enterprises pp. 517-539

Chong-En Bai and Lixin Colin Xu

The consumption and welfare implications of wage arrears in transition economies pp. 540-564

Dmytro Boyarchuk, Lilia Maliar and Serguei Maliar

The effect of employee stock ownership on wage and employment bargaining pp. 565-583

Rick Harbaugh

Unemployment dynamics and NAIRU estimates for accession countries: A univariate approach pp. 584-603

Mariam Camarero, Josep Lluís Carrion-i-Silvestre and Cecilio Tamarit

Employment dynamics in the Romanian labor market. A Markov chain Monte Carlo approach pp. 604-639

Alexandru Voicu

Volume 33, issue 2, 2005

Returns to schooling in transition: The Chinese, European, and Russian experiences pp. 223-226

Belton M. Fleisher

Wage determination under plan and early transition: Bulgarian evidence using matched employer-employee data pp. 227-243

Derek Charles Jones and Kosali Ilayperuma Simon

Determinants of schooling returns during transition: Evidence from Chinese cities pp. 244-264

Dennis Tao Yang

Returns to schooling in China under planning and reform pp. 265-277

Belton M. Fleisher and Xiaojun Wang

Is women's human capital valued more by markets than by planners? pp. 278-299

Daniel MÜNICH, Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terell

The wage effects of schooling under socialism and in transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950-2000 pp. 300-323

Daniela Andrén, John Earle and Dana Sapatoru

Returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A semiparametric approach to cross-country comparative analysis pp. 324-350

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Klara Sabirianova Peter

Returns to skills and the speed of reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia pp. 351-370

Belton M. Fleisher, Klara Sabirianova Peter and Xiaojun Wang

Can EU conditionality remedy soft budget constraints in transition countries? pp. 371-386

Herbert Brucker, Philipp J.H. Schröder and Christian Weise

Real and nominal stochastic convergence: Are the new EU members ready to join the Euro zone? pp. 387-400

Ali M. Kutan and Taner Yigit

Productivity growth in OECD countries: A comparison with Malmquist indices pp. 401-420

Barış K. Yörük and Osman Zaim

Volume 33, issue 1, 2005

The multi-regime bank lending channel and the effectiveness of the Polish monetary policy transmission during transition pp. 1-24

Rafal Kierzenkowski

Market economic systems pp. 25-46

Frederic L. Pryor

Bundling of social and private goods and the soft budget constraint problem pp. 47-58

Roller, Lars-Hendrik and Zhentang Zhang

The incidence and cost of job loss in a transition economy: displaced workers in Estonia, 1989 to 1999 pp. 59-87

Hartmut Lehmann, Kaia Philips and Jonathan Wadsworth

Heterogeneous labor markets and generosity towards the unemployed: an international perspective pp. 88-106

Stephane Pallage and Christian Zimmermann

The migration response to economic shock: lessons from Kazakhstan pp. 107-132

Charles M. Becker, Erbolat N. Musabek, Seitenova, Ai-Gul S. and Dina S. Urzhumova

Institution and inequality: the hukou system in China pp. 133-157

Zhiqiang Liu

Medals in transition: explaining medal performance and inequality of Chinese provinces pp. 158-172

Minghua Jiang and Lixin Colin Xu

Local tax system, intergovernmental transfers and China's local fiscal disparities pp. 173-196

Tsui, Kai-yuen

The changing role of grain cooperatives in the transition to competitive markets in South Africa pp. 197-218

Jenifer Piesse, Tobias Doyer, Colin Thirtle and Nick Vink

Volume 32, issue 4, 2004

Corporate governance and market valuation in China pp. 599-616

Chong-En Bai, Qiao Liu, Joe Lu, Frank M. Song and Junxi Zhang

Political control and performance in China's listed firms pp. 617-636

Eric C. Chang and Sonia M.L. Wong

Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China pp. 637-660

John Knight and Linda Yueh

Testing Vietnam's public safety net pp. 661-679

Dominique van de Walle

Russia's accession to the WTO: the potential for trade increase pp. 680-699

Babetskaia-Kukharchuk, Oxana and Maurel

Landing on all fours? Communist elites in post-Soviet Russia pp. 700-719

Ingo Geishecker and John P. Haisken-DeNew

Public support for creating a market economy in Eastern Europe pp. 720-744

Bernd Hayo

Human capital, market imperfections, and labor reallocation in transition pp. 745-774

Marian Rizov and Johan Swinnen

The determinants of foreign direct investment into European transition economies pp. 775-787

Alan A. Bevan and Saul Estrin

The impact of bilateral investment treaties on foreign direct investment pp. 788-804

Peter H. Egger and Michael Pfaffermayr

Foreign direct investment and vertical integration of production by Japanese multinationals in Thailand pp. 805-821

Chris Milner, Geoff Reed and Pawin Talerngsri

Volume 32, issue 3, 2004

Taxation and evasion in the presence of extortion by organized crime pp. 375-387

Michael Alexeev, Eckhard Janeba and Stefan Osborne

Public governance as the source of quality and variety gains from transition pp. 388-408

Richard Frensch

No pain, no gain: market reform, unemployment, and politics in Bulgaria pp. 409-425

Neven Valev

Exchange rate pass-through and monetary policy in Croatia pp. 426-444

Andreas Billmeier and Leo Bonato

Spillovers of technology transfer from FDI: the case of Estonia pp. 445-466

Evis Sinani and Klaus E. Meyer

Convergence of price levels: lessons from the German reunification pp. 467-481

Philipp Maier and Paul Cavelaars

Comparing individual wage determinants in Western and Central Europe: on the way to convergence? The cases of France and Hungary pp. 482-499

Violaine Delteil, Ariane Pailhé and Dominique Redor

Decomposing the dividend pp. 500-518

Grifell-Tatje, E. and C. A. Knox Lovell

Was there an implicit full guarantee at financial institutions in Thailand? Evidence of risk pricing by depositors pp. 519-541

Timothy P. Opiela

From inferior to superior products: an inquiry into the Wenzhou model of industrial development in China pp. 542-563

Tetsushi Sonobe, Dinghuan Hu and Keijiro Otsuka

Household food demand in urban China: a censored system approach pp. 564-585

Steven T. Yen, Cheng Fang and Su, Shew-Jiuan

Gender wage gap in Vietnam: 1993 to 1998 pp. 586-596

Amy Y.C. Liu

Volume 32, issue 2, 2004

Optimum choice of the exchange-rate regime for the accession-candidate countries pp. 197-201

Jan Fidrmuc and Maurel

Supply and demand shocks in accession countries to the Economic and Monetary Union pp. 202-211

Julius Horvath and Attila Rátfai

Exchange rate regimes and shocks asymmetry: the case of the accession countries pp. 212-229

Ian Babetskii, Laurence Boone and Maurel

Migration and regional adjustment to asymmetric shocks in transition economies pp. 230-247

Jan Fidrmuc

Intra-national labor market adjustment in the candidate countries pp. 248-264

Peter Huber

EU enlargement and the internal geography of countries pp. 265-279

Matthieu Crozet and Pamina Koenig

How different is Eastern Europe? Structure and determinants of location choices by French firms in Eastern and Western Europe pp. 280-296

Anne-Célia Disdier and Thierry Mayer

Money, barter, and inflation in Russia pp. 297-314

Byung-Yeon Kim and Jukka Pirttilä

The role of oil prices and the real exchange rate in Russia's economy--a cointegration approach pp. 315-327

Jouko Rautava

Consumption smoothing during the economic transition in Bulgaria pp. 328-347

Emmanuel Skoufias

Accounting for income inequality in rural China: a regression-based approach pp. 348-363

Guanghua Wan

Financial Liberalization, How Far, How Fast?: By Gerard Caprio, Patrick Honohan, and Joseph Stiglitz, Editors. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 2001. ix + 318 pp., index, $53.00 pp. 364-366

David M. Kemme

Living with Environmental Change: Social Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience in Vietnam: Edited by W. Neil Adger, P. Mick Kelly, and Nguyen Huu Ninh. Routledge, London and New York, 2002. XXI + 314 pp., index, $90.00 pp. 367-369

Jonathan Haughton

Institutions, Transition Economies, and Economic Development: By Timothy J. Yeager. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1999. xv + 166 pp., index, $28.00, paper pp. 370-371

Chu, Ke-young

Volume 32, issue 1, 2004

Foreign direct investment in Central and Eastern European countries: a dynamic panel analysis pp. 3-22

Kai Carstensen and Farid Toubal

Nominal and real stochastic convergence of transition economies pp. 23-36

Ali M. Kutan and Taner Yigit

The locking-in effect of subsidized jobs pp. 37-55

Jan van Ours

Private and public sector wages in Bulgaria pp. 56-72

Evangelos M. Falaris

Enterprise finance and investment in listed Hungarian firms pp. 73-87

Enrico Perotti and Luka Vesnaver

Searching for the value-subtraction in the Russian economy pp. 88-104

Vlad Ivanenko

Options and impact of China's pension reform: a computable general equilibrium analysis pp. 105-127

Yan Wang, Dianqing Xu, Zhi Wang and Fan Zhai

China's capital tax reforms in an open economy pp. 128-147

Shuanglin Lin

Limited linkages from growth engines and regional disparities in China pp. 148-164

Xiaolan Fu

How important is ownership in a market with level playing field?: The Indian banking sector revisited pp. 165-180

Sumon K. Bhaumik and Ralitza Dimova Dimova

The resource curse hypothesis and its transmission channels pp. 181-193

Elissaios Papyrakis and Reyer Gerlagh