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Access to Credit and Employment Liquidation. Firm‐Level Evidence From Eastern and Central Europe (2001–2007)

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the changes in the structure of employment in Central and Eastern European firms between 2001 and 2007, before the Global Financial Crisis and following the reforms in the labour and credit markets in these economies.
Elisabetta Magnani
wiley   +1 more source

Online deviance in post-Soviet space: Victimisation, perceptions and social attitudes amongst young people, an Armenian case study

Digital Geography and Society
This paper presents a survey-based case study of the experiences and perceptions of, and attitudes towards, various forms of online deviance amongst a largely female, educated sample of young people drawn predominantly from the Armenian capital city of ...
Tim Hall, Ulrike Ziemer
doaj   +1 more source

Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
wiley   +1 more source

The Regional Newspaper in Post-Soviet Russia

, 2012
Tutkimuksen kohteena ovat ne muutokset, joita venäläisessä sanomalehdistössä ja journalismissa tapahtui 1980-luvun lopun poliittisten reformien aikana ja Neuvostoliiton hajoamisen jälkeen. Tutkimus kohdistuu alueelliselle tasolle ja tarkastelee Karjalan tasavaltaa esimerkkitapauksena.
openaire   +1 more source

Neoliberal Governmentality and English Private Tutoring Among Rural Secondary School Students in Kazakhstan: A Quantitative Inquiry

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the nature, effectiveness, and implications of English private tutoring (EPT) among Grade 11 students in rural Kazakhstan. Drawing on survey responses from 160 students within a larger sample of 740, the study examines participation patterns, motivations, perceived benefits, and the financial and social costs ...
Anas Hajar, Mehmet Karakus
wiley   +1 more source

Formation of International Migration System in Post-Soviet Eurasia

RUDN Journal of Economics, 2008
The author considers the post-soviet states within the frames of the international migration systems concept. She proves that the growing interstate cooperation between the CIS countries in the field of migration management is to be based on ...
I V Ivakhnyuk
doaj  

L2‐Mediated Personal Competence as a Dimension of Identity Development Among International Students in Kazakhstan: A Mixed Methods Study

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Kazakhstan has emerged as a non‐traditional destination for international students through the expansion of English‐medium instruction and government‐funded scholarship schemes. This convergent mixed‐methods study examines how degree‐seeking international students from non‐Commonwealth of Independent States countries adapt to academic ...
Kymbat Yessenbekova, Anas Hajar
wiley   +1 more source

The ‘Geopolitical Commission’: 40 Years in the Making?

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2019, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised MEPs she would deliver a ‘Geopolitical Commission’ during the five years of her term in office, unbeknown that the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine were around the corner.
Robert Kissack
wiley   +1 more source

Vernacularizing the Best Interests of the Child: Comparative Insights From Three Legal Systems

Journal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study investigates how the Best Interests of the Child principle in the UN Children's Rights Convention (Article 3) has been adapted in custody disputes in Egypt, Sweden, and Uzbekistan. Although the Convention on the Rights of the Child offers a common normative benchmark, divergent legal cultures shape its domestic meaning: Egypt is ...
Anna Lundberg, Monika Lindbekk, Anna Sonander, Rustamjon Urinboyev   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Figures of an Agrarian Nation: Indonesia's Agricultural Census, 1963–2023

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why have Indonesia's decennial agricultural censuses defined their key unit of analysis, the ‘agricultural household’, differently? How do changes to that category shape knowledge production among those who rely on census data? This paper compares definitions of the agricultural household across seven censuses with international ...
Colum Graham
wiley   +1 more source