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Religious Anti-Semitism In Romanian Facist Propaganda, Georgetta Pana May 2006

Religious Anti-Semitism In Romanian Facist Propaganda, Georgetta Pana

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Lazari's "Ideas In Russia. Polish-Russian-English Lexicon" - Book Review, Mikhail Sergeev May 2006

Lazari's "Ideas In Russia. Polish-Russian-English Lexicon" - Book Review, Mikhail Sergeev

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


The New South Wales Carers’ Responsibilities Act, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center, Georgetown Federal Legislation Clinic Apr 2006

The New South Wales Carers’ Responsibilities Act, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center, Georgetown Federal Legislation Clinic

Memos and Fact Sheets

Enacted in 2001, the New South Wales Carers’ Responsibilities Act (“CRA”) prohibits discrimination against employees with caregiver responsibilities and provides access to reasonable flexible work arrangements. Under this law, employees have the right to request accommodations for their carer responsibilities, and employers have an affirmative obligation to consider and grant reasonable accommodations that do not impose an unjustifiable hardship. The affirmative accommodation requirement extends to requests for flexible working hours, working from home (telecommuting), part-time work, and job-share arrangements.


Cvitkovic's "Konfesija U Ratu [Religion In War]" - Book Review, Mitja Velikonja Feb 2006

Cvitkovic's "Konfesija U Ratu [Religion In War]" - Book Review, Mitja Velikonja

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


The Tirana Summit Declaration On Inter-Religious And Inter-Ethnic Dialogue In South-East Europe, Tirana, Albania – 10 December 2004, Regional Summit On The Development Of Inter-Ethnic And Inter-Religious Dialogue – Important Factor For The Stability And Progress Of South-East Europe Feb 2006

The Tirana Summit Declaration On Inter-Religious And Inter-Ethnic Dialogue In South-East Europe, Tirana, Albania – 10 December 2004, Regional Summit On The Development Of Inter-Ethnic And Inter-Religious Dialogue – Important Factor For The Stability And Progress Of South-East Europe

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Adamant And Treacherous: Serbian Historians On Religious Conversions, Bojan Aleksov Feb 2006

Adamant And Treacherous: Serbian Historians On Religious Conversions, Bojan Aleksov

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


László'S "Church And State In Hungary, 1919-1945" - Book Review, Csaba Fazekas Feb 2006

László'S "Church And State In Hungary, 1919-1945" - Book Review, Csaba Fazekas

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Uneasy Tolerance: Interreligious Relations In Bulgaria After The Fall Of Communism, Ina Merdjanova Feb 2006

Uneasy Tolerance: Interreligious Relations In Bulgaria After The Fall Of Communism, Ina Merdjanova

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Ottoman Millet, Religious Nationalism, And Civil Society: Focus On Kosovo, James R. Payton Jr. Feb 2006

Ottoman Millet, Religious Nationalism, And Civil Society: Focus On Kosovo, James R. Payton Jr.

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Religion Classes In State Institutions In Post-Soviet Russia, Joseph A. Loya O.S.A. Feb 2006

Religion Classes In State Institutions In Post-Soviet Russia, Joseph A. Loya O.S.A.

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Hungary: Holding Back The Tiers, Kenneth Benoit Feb 2006

Hungary: Holding Back The Tiers, Kenneth Benoit

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Hungary has a particularly complicated electoral system: a type of mixed system that incorporates three tiers of seat allocation, the use of a proportional allocation formula, and the allocation of a number of seats by a two-round system in single-member constituencies. Examination of the strategic incentives facing parties explains some surprising outcomes, such as the majoritarian impact on the party system and the possibility of the second strongest party in votes becoming the strongest in seats. Despite its complexity and alleged shortcomings, it is unlikely to be abandoned; it serves the interests of the largest parties, and these effectively wield …


Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons From Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data In Hungary, Romania, Russia, And Ukraine, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Álmos Telegdy Feb 2006

Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons From Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data In Hungary, Romania, Russia, And Ukraine, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Álmos Telegdy

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to longitudinal data on manufacturing firms, our fixed effect and random trend models consistently fail to support workers' fears of job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers result from effects on scale, productivity, and costs that are large …


Nonstandard Forms And Measures Of Employment And Unemployment In Transition: A Comparative Study Of Estonia, Romania, And Russia, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov, Hartmut Lehmann, Álmos Telegdy, Irina Vantu, Ruxandra Visan, Alexandru Voicu Feb 2006

Nonstandard Forms And Measures Of Employment And Unemployment In Transition: A Comparative Study Of Estonia, Romania, And Russia, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov, Hartmut Lehmann, Álmos Telegdy, Irina Vantu, Ruxandra Visan, Alexandru Voicu

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available labor force statistics relied upon in most studies of transition economy labor markets. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of employment and unemployment. Our calculations show that measured rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment of household production (subsistence agriculture), unpaid family helpers, and discouraged workers, while the categories of part-time work and other forms of marginal attachment are still relatively unimportant. We find that tweaking the official definitions in apparently minor ways …


Wages, Layoffs, And Privatization: Evidence From Ukraine, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Volodymyr Vakhitov Feb 2006

Wages, Layoffs, And Privatization: Evidence From Ukraine, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Volodymyr Vakhitov

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a national probability sample of Ukrainian households. Detailed worker characteristics are used to control for compositional differences and to assess types of observable "winners" and "losers" from privatization. Preprivatization worker-firm matches are used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 percent and cuts the layoff probability in half. Outside investor ownership reduces separations but leaves wages unaffected. Winners from privatization tend to be higher-skilled employees of larger firms, but there is no discernible …


Effects Of Eu Accession On The Politics Of Privatization - The Steel Sector In Comparative Perspective, Aleksandra Sznajder Lee Jan 2006

Effects Of Eu Accession On The Politics Of Privatization - The Steel Sector In Comparative Perspective, Aleksandra Sznajder Lee

Political Science Faculty Publications

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of the European Union (EU) accession process on the restructuring and privatization of the steel sector of the four largest steel producers in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), namely Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Slovakia. The outcome to date for these countries' steel mills has been relatively uniform in that they have been integrated into the global production networks of some of the largest multinational steel enterprises. The pressures which brought this outcome about, however, were far from uniform. The variability in the modes of convergence is highlighted by …


Employment And Wage Effects Of Privatization: Evidence From Transition Economies, John S. Earle Jan 2006

Employment And Wage Effects Of Privatization: Evidence From Transition Economies, John S. Earle

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Hungary: Protection Of Ethnic Minorities And Institutional Balance, Anna Gwiazda, Kenneth Benoit Jan 2006

Hungary: Protection Of Ethnic Minorities And Institutional Balance, Anna Gwiazda, Kenneth Benoit

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

United in support for the EU constitution, the Hungarians none the less remember the past dismemberment of their country, as a result of which a significant number of Hungarian minorities live in neighboring countries. Hence, it was not surprising that the Hungarian government’s position at the IGC 2003–4 focused on the protection of minority rights, although institutional balance was also important. The only “exclusive” Hungarian proposal of the “protection of ethnic and national minorities” was supported by both the socialists and the opposition Fidesz–Hungarian Civic Party. Hungary joined the European Union on 1 May 2004. EU membership had been a …


Churches And The Consolidation Of Democratic Culture: Difference And Convergence In The Czech Republic And Hungary, Zsolt Enyedi, Joan O'Mahony Nov 2005

Churches And The Consolidation Of Democratic Culture: Difference And Convergence In The Czech Republic And Hungary, Zsolt Enyedi, Joan O'Mahony

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Land, Nationalism And Christian Faith, Janos Pasztor Nov 2005

Land, Nationalism And Christian Faith, Janos Pasztor

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


The Religious Situation In Contemporary Bulgaria, And In Serbia And Montenegro: Differences And Similarities, Nonka Bogomilova Nov 2005

The Religious Situation In Contemporary Bulgaria, And In Serbia And Montenegro: Differences And Similarities, Nonka Bogomilova

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


The Productivity Effects Of Privatization: Longitudinal Estimates From Hungary, Romania, Russia, And Ukraine, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Álmos Telegdy Oct 2005

The Productivity Effects Of Privatization: Longitudinal Estimates From Hungary, Romania, Russia, And Ukraine, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Álmos Telegdy

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four economies. We exploit the key longitudinal feature of our data to measure and control for pre-privatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. We find that the magnitudes of our estimates are robust to alternative functional forms, but sensitive to how we control for selection. Our preferred random growth models imply that majority privatization raises MFP about 15% in Romania, 8% in Hungary, and 2% in Ukraine, while in Russia it lowers it 3%. …


Measuring National Delegate Positions At The Convention On The Future Of Europe Using Computerized Word Scoring, Kenneth Benoit, Michael Laver, Christine Arnold, Paul Pennings, Madeline O. Hosli Sep 2005

Measuring National Delegate Positions At The Convention On The Future Of Europe Using Computerized Word Scoring, Kenneth Benoit, Michael Laver, Christine Arnold, Paul Pennings, Madeline O. Hosli

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The Convention on the Future of Europe that led to the eventual drafting of an EU Constitution involved numerous political actors from many countries. Their negotiations over the constitution generated a huge volume of texts containing substantive information about their preferences for EU institutional and political outcomes. In this paper, we attempt to measure these preferences at the national party level by analysing the Convention texts using the computerized ‘word-scoring’ method for text analysis (Laver et al., 2003). For each national party whose delegates’ texts were recorded at the Convention, we estimate their positions on four political dimensions. We then …


Sergeev's "The Project Of The Enlightenment: Essays On Religion, Philosophy And Art" - Book Review, Victor Shlenkin Aug 2005

Sergeev's "The Project Of The Enlightenment: Essays On Religion, Philosophy And Art" - Book Review, Victor Shlenkin

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Hoekendijk, Bossey, Hungary, Reverend Laszlo Gonda Aug 2005

Hoekendijk, Bossey, Hungary, Reverend Laszlo Gonda

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Faith: Source Of Peace Or Cause For Unrest, Ratomir Grozdanoski Aug 2005

Faith: Source Of Peace Or Cause For Unrest, Ratomir Grozdanoski

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


A Dissident Parish In East Germany - The Unique Story Of Holy Cross In Halle, Paul Oestreicher Aug 2005

A Dissident Parish In East Germany - The Unique Story Of Holy Cross In Halle, Paul Oestreicher

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Dialogue Is The Only Way To Prevent Disaster, Ismail Bardhi Aug 2005

Dialogue Is The Only Way To Prevent Disaster, Ismail Bardhi

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Church And State Relations In Present-Day Serbia: Part Iv Serbia Within The European Context, Angela Ilić Aug 2005

Church And State Relations In Present-Day Serbia: Part Iv Serbia Within The European Context, Angela Ilić

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Narrative Paradigms Of Emergence - Contextual Orthodox Theological Identity, Parush R. Parushev May 2005

Narrative Paradigms Of Emergence - Contextual Orthodox Theological Identity, Parush R. Parushev

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Church And State Relations In Present-Day Serbia: Part Iii The Societal Reality Of Religious Freedom And Tolerance, Angela Ilić May 2005

Church And State Relations In Present-Day Serbia: Part Iii The Societal Reality Of Religious Freedom And Tolerance, Angela Ilić

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.