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The Catholic Church In Hungary Now, András Máté-Tóth Dec 2004

The Catholic Church In Hungary Now, András Máté-Tóth

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Evanston After Fifty Years, Norman A. Hjelm Dec 2004

Evanston After Fifty Years, Norman A. Hjelm

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Modernist Hermeneutics In Ottokar Prohaszka, Leslie A. Muray Dec 2004

Modernist Hermeneutics In Ottokar Prohaszka, Leslie A. Muray

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Hundert's "Jews In Poland-Lithuania In The Eighteenth Century" - Book Review, Stephen J. Chernoski Dec 2004

Hundert's "Jews In Poland-Lithuania In The Eighteenth Century" - Book Review, Stephen J. Chernoski

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Shrader's "The Muslim-Croat Civil War In Central Bosnia – A Military History, 1992-1994" - Book Review, Tal Tovy Dec 2004

Shrader's "The Muslim-Croat Civil War In Central Bosnia – A Military History, 1992-1994" - Book Review, Tal Tovy

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Church And State Relations In Present-Day Serbia: Part I A Brief Historical Overview Of Serbia: Important Issues Of Religious Identity, Angela Ilić Dec 2004

Church And State Relations In Present-Day Serbia: Part I A Brief Historical Overview Of Serbia: Important Issues Of Religious Identity, Angela Ilić

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Does Privatization Raise Productivity? Evidence From Comprehensive Panel Data On Manufacturing Firms In Hungary, Romania, Russia, And Ukraine, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Álmos Telegdy Nov 2004

Does Privatization Raise Productivity? Evidence From Comprehensive Panel Data On Manufacturing Firms In Hungary, Romania, Russia, And Ukraine, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Álmos Telegdy

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four economies. Controlling for firm and industry-year fixed effects and employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we estimate that majority privatization raises MFP about 28 percent in Romania, 22 percent in Hungary, and 3 percent in Ukraine, with some variation across specifications, while in Russia it lowers it about 4 percent. Privatization to foreign rather than domestic investors has a larger impact (about 44 percent) and is much more consistent across countries. The positive effects …


The Wage Effects Of Schooling Under Socialism And In Transition: Evidence From Romania, 1950-2000, Daniela Andrén, John S. Earle, Dana Sapatoru Nov 2004

The Wage Effects Of Schooling Under Socialism And In Transition: Evidence From Romania, 1950-2000, Daniela Andrén, John S. Earle, Dana Sapatoru

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3-4 percent during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventional earnings regression rises steadily during the 1990s, reaching 8.5 percent by 2000. Our analysis finds little evidence for either the standard explanations of such an increase in the West (labor supply movements, product demand shifts, technical change) or the transition-specific accounts sometimes offered (wage liberalization, border opening, increased quality of education). But we find some support for institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in …


Eastern Europe: Osce Conference On Discrimination - A Regional Survey, Felix Corley Oct 2004

Eastern Europe: Osce Conference On Discrimination - A Regional Survey, Felix Corley

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Advice From St. Maximos Confessor For Contemporary Macedonians, James R. Payton Jr. Oct 2004

Advice From St. Maximos Confessor For Contemporary Macedonians, James R. Payton Jr.

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

All three of our monotheistic religions rely on the divine Word, written for us: for Jews in the Tanakh, for Christians also in the New Testament, and for Muslims as well in the Qur’an. For all our disagreements with each other, we recognize a common rootedness in a tradition of faith finding its beginning in Abraham, for Jews carried forward by the patriarchs and Moses, for Christians fulfilled in Jesus Christ, and for Muslims culminating in Muhammed. Consequently, even in the midst of the tensions that have separated our faiths over the centuries and have contributed recently to the tensions …


Bönker, Müller, & Pickel's “Towards A New Paradigm In Transitology Postcommunist Transformation And The Social Sciences: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches" - Book Review, Boyka Stefanova Oct 2004

Bönker, Müller, & Pickel's “Towards A New Paradigm In Transitology Postcommunist Transformation And The Social Sciences: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches" - Book Review, Boyka Stefanova

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Reflections On The Contemporary Religious "Revival" Religion, Secularization, Globalization, Nonka Bogomilova Aug 2004

Reflections On The Contemporary Religious "Revival" Religion, Secularization, Globalization, Nonka Bogomilova

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


What Does It Mean To Be A Missionary Church Today?, Janos Pasztor Aug 2004

What Does It Mean To Be A Missionary Church Today?, Janos Pasztor

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Fairbairn’S "Eastern Orthodoxy Through Western Eyes" - Book Review, Walter D. Ray Aug 2004

Fairbairn’S "Eastern Orthodoxy Through Western Eyes" - Book Review, Walter D. Ray

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Queer Studies In Eastern Europe: Lgbtq Scholars Convene In Fifth Conference In Poland, Tomek Kitlinski, Pawel Leszkowicz Jul 2004

Queer Studies In Eastern Europe: Lgbtq Scholars Convene In Fifth Conference In Poland, Tomek Kitlinski, Pawel Leszkowicz

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

The International Conference of LGBTQ Studies was held in Poland from May 24-26, 2004. Themed as "Europe without Homophobia," the conference at Wroclaw University brought together an international group of scholars and activists to discuss homophobia, both in its global and East European forms.


The Eu And The Npt: Testing The New European Nonproliferation Strategy, Clara Portela Jul 2004

The Eu And The Npt: Testing The New European Nonproliferation Strategy, Clara Portela

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Only a few years ago, the idea that the European Union (EU) could become a significant actor in the nuclear nonproliferation regime would have met with great scepticism. An organisation comprising nuclear weapon states (NWS) along with non-nuclear weapons states (NNWS) - some of who are disarmament-minded - would have been considered incapable of framing any common response to nuclear proliferation. And yet, today we find that the EU is establishing itself as an actor in the field of nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and that it has even developed a Strategy to guide its endeavours.This article will …


Czech Protestants Between Socialist Czechoslovakia And European Union, Petr Pokorný Jun 2004

Czech Protestants Between Socialist Czechoslovakia And European Union, Petr Pokorný

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Orthodoxy In A New Europe: Problems And Perspectives, Bishop Hilarion Jun 2004

Orthodoxy In A New Europe: Problems And Perspectives, Bishop Hilarion

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Overcoming The Totalitarian Past, Sergey Averintsev Jun 2004

Overcoming The Totalitarian Past, Sergey Averintsev

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Orthodoxy In America: Diaspora Or Church?, Reverend Leonid Kishkovsky Jun 2004

Orthodoxy In America: Diaspora Or Church?, Reverend Leonid Kishkovsky

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Slovak Lutheran Social Ethics, Past And Present, Vasil Gluchman Jun 2004

Slovak Lutheran Social Ethics, Past And Present, Vasil Gluchman

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Information Technology, Organizational Form, And Transition To The Market, John S. Earle, Ugo Pagano, Maria Lesi Jun 2004

Information Technology, Organizational Form, And Transition To The Market, John S. Earle, Ugo Pagano, Maria Lesi

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

The paper reviews theories of information technology adoption and organizational form and applies them to an empirical analysis of firm choices and characteristics in four transition economies: Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia. We argue that these economies have gone through two major structural changes – one concerning technology and another concerning ownership and boundaries of firms – and we consider if and how each of the two structural changes has affected the other. We test the impact of firm size, integration, and ownership on the extent of new information technology adoption (measured by growth in the fraction of employees …


What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, And The Business Environment In Romania, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Dana Lup Jun 2004

What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, And The Business Environment In Romania, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Dana Lup

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been relatively little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania containing detailed information from the startup date through 2001. We find strong evidence that access to external credit increases the growth of both employment and sales. Taxes appear to constrain growth. The data suggest that entrepreneurial skills have little independent effect on growth, once demand conditions are taken into account. The evidence for the …


Institutional Change And Persistence: The Evolution Of Poland's Electoral System, 1989-2001, Kenneth Benoit, Jacqueline Hayden May 2004

Institutional Change And Persistence: The Evolution Of Poland's Electoral System, 1989-2001, Kenneth Benoit, Jacqueline Hayden

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Electoral systems are uniquely distributive political institutions that shape political outcomes, yet are themselves endogenously shaped outcomes of political choices. In Poland, party system development has involved not only parties adapting to electoral institutions in each election, but also parties modifying these institutions prior to every election. We model electoral system change as driven by partisan self-interest in maximizing seat share and test it in five episodes of electoral system change in Poland from 1989 to 2001, comparing parties’ support for electoral law alternatives to their expectations of seat shares from those alternatives. Data consists of opinion polls, roll-call votes, …


Aagaard & Bouteneff's "Beyond The East-West Divide: The World Council Of Churches And The Orthodox Problem" - Book Review, Paul L. Gavrilyuk Apr 2004

Aagaard & Bouteneff's "Beyond The East-West Divide: The World Council Of Churches And The Orthodox Problem" - Book Review, Paul L. Gavrilyuk

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Schism In The Bulgarian Orthodox Church And Its Repercussions On Religious Developments And The New Law Of Confessions, Janice Broun Apr 2004

Schism In The Bulgarian Orthodox Church And Its Repercussions On Religious Developments And The New Law Of Confessions, Janice Broun

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Is Religious Freedom Possible?, Gordana Živkoviƒ Apr 2004

Is Religious Freedom Possible?, Gordana Živkoviƒ

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Methods For Evaluating Employment Programs In Sofia, Bulgaria, Christopher J. O'Leary Feb 2004

Methods For Evaluating Employment Programs In Sofia, Bulgaria, Christopher J. O'Leary

Conference Papers

No abstract provided.


The Church And Democracy In Central Europe, Tamas Kodácsy Feb 2004

The Church And Democracy In Central Europe, Tamas Kodácsy

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


In The Name Of God? The Problem Of Religious Or Non-Religious Preambles Of State Constitutions In Post-Atheistic Contexts, Konrad Schmid Feb 2004

In The Name Of God? The Problem Of Religious Or Non-Religious Preambles Of State Constitutions In Post-Atheistic Contexts, Konrad Schmid

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.