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So Many Rocket Scientists, So Few Marketing Clerks: Occupational Mobility in Times of Rapid Technological Change [PDF]
The transition from centrally planned to market economy involves a process of massive occupational change that has been largely neglected in the literature. This paper investigates this process using data from the 1995 Estonian Labour Force Survey.
Campos, Nauro F. +1 more
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The subject of the article is the phenomena and facts of the Sovietisation of general education schools in the first months of 1940–1941, which are still largely unreported in the historiography.
Stanislovas Buchaveckas
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European Integration and Changing Trade Patterns: The Case of the Baltic States [PDF]
The analysis of Baltic regional trade patterns reveals that during the nineties the Baltic states made significant progress to integrate into the Western European division of labour although a significant share of (transit) trade with Russia remained. In
Claus-Friedrich Laaser, Klaus Schrader
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Multiple Job Holding in Russia During Economic Transition [PDF]
This article analyzes multiple job holding in the context of economic transition. Evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal survey of Russian citizens is used to characterize secondary jobs and second job holders, with emphasis on the ...
Mark C. Foley
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Pedology as occupation in the early Soviet Union
Pedology experienced remarkable institutional expansion in the Soviet Union during the 1920s in the context of the Bolsheviks’ efforts to build a new, universal and progressive system of education, healthcare and child welfare. This chapter demonstrates the critical and distinctive, yet so far neglected, role that specifically occupational, as opposed ...
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Returns to Education and Education-Occupation Mismatch within a Transition Economy. Empirical Analysis for the Russian Federation [PDF]
This paper makes a thorough analysis of the returns to tertiary education and education-occupation matches within a transition economy and compares these returns to similar returns in a developed economy.
Natalia Kyui
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Poland in Times of Great War and Second Independence 1914–1939 [PDF]
The present book “Poland – History, Culture and Society. Selected Readings” is the third edition of a collection of academic texts written with the intention to accompany the module by providing incoming students with teaching materials that will assist ...
Pietrzak, Jacek
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Many Americans picture the Allied (i.e., U.S.) Occupation of Japan (1945-52) as the quintessentially good occupation: elaborately planned in advance, idealistically administered until derailed by anti-Communist indeologues in its later years, it laid the
J. Mark Ramseyer, Yoshiro Miwa
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Memoirs of Soviet Partisans as a Source of Ukrainian-Polish Relations on Temporarily Occupied Territory of Ukraine [PDF]
У статті на основі аналізу документального матеріалу, спогадів радянських партизанів розглянуто взаємовідносини населення на тимчасово окупованій території України, трагічні сторінки окупаційного режиму.
Savchuk, P., Савчук, Петро
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Destroying Hitler’s Berghof: The Bomber Command Raid of 25 April 1945 [PDF]
This paper examines the Royal Air Force raid on Adolf Hitler’s Berghof on the Obersalzberg in April 1945. Arthur Harris, the head of Bomber Command, wanted to emphasize the air power’s decisive role in the defeat of Nazism. However, Winston Churchill and
Haller, Oliver
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