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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)The size of the informal economy in Kazakhstan declined from 42.6% in 1999 to 33.8% in 2015. The informal economy can make an important contribution to solving the problem of fiscal deficit without forgoing economic growth ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-05-01)The paper presents a thorough analysis of the consequences of economic integration for the countries of the Eurasian Customs Union. The main objective of the paper is to evaluate the economic efficiency of the Union by ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2022-05)This paper analyzes the implications of the maternity capital policy on the earnings of mothers with one or two children under 18 in Russia. The main goals of this paper are to obtain the most recent estimates of the ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)Fluctuations in oil prices during the last decade have reignited the interest in the \Dutch Disease" hypothesis. The paper aims at identifying the presence of the Dutch Disease and at assessing the importance of choosing ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-07-28)The aim of this paper was to study the effects of recently introduced pension reform in Kazakhstan on the welfare of the country. The effect of increase in mandatory retirement age for women from 58 to 63 was of primary ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017-05-29)The current study analyzes personal bankruptcy ling behavior of young Americans born in the period from 1980 to 1984. Using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), I nd the importance of demographic and ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018-04-13)Heterogeneity between workers, firms or regions is an aspect in macroeconomics that has been largely overlooked. Typically, a representative agent approach is followed, like the respresentative firm or worker in an economy. ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018)The goal of this experimental study is to demonstrate that the test of loss-aversion has a superior predictive power than the standard test of risk-aversion over behavior in risky situations that involve potential losses, ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)This paper analyzes the risky investment decisions of the elderly in the United States. Utilizing the Health and Retirement Study data for 2002-2008, I first exam ine the effects of different factors on risky asset ownership ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-04-29)Issimbayeva, G. (2020). The Short-Term Wage Growth Rate After Unemployment: The Case of Unemployment in Russia (Master’s thesis, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan). Retrieved from https://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)The study examines the evidence of the impact of the telecommunication infrastructure on economic growth. First, the paper investigates relationship between the mobile/land-line phones and the economic growth by using ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018-05-10)The aim of this work is to test whether publicly available companies from Kazakhstan follow the pecking order theory of capital structure in their financial decisions. We defined the importance of the financial leverage ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)This paper examines the determinants of firm exit in emerging economy of Kazakhstan. Using cross-sectional data of all legal entities in Kazakhstan, I show that mature firms (5- 10 years) are more likely to fail than ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)Recently, fi nancial literacy has been an important issue to discuss all over the world. By increasing the financial literacy level of a nation, we can improve the welfare level of the country. Kazakhstan has not been ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)The U.S. elderly labor force participation rates (LFPR) has been increasing during the last two decades. Using the Michigan Health and Retirement Study (HRS) survey, this paper analyzes the e ects of subjective and various ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018-05-10)This paper assesses the effectiveness of the “maternity capital” subsidy by estimating the changes in consumption patterns of families with two children in the Russian Federation between 2000-2016. The main focus is on the ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)This study analyzes the relationship between trade and bank credit, considering them as jointly determined variables. The relative sizes of bank and trade credit to sales are modeled in a two-equation system, allowing ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018-05-10)This paper investigates the effects of various macroeconomic and demographic factors on criminal activity in Kazakhstan. In my analysis I focus on average gravity and grave crimes in addition to total crimes over the ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-05-19)This paper proposes a Social planner, Nash-Bargaining and Market-based allocations of water between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, as well as the strategic interaction of those countries under serial monopoly setting. It is ...
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(N/ANazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018-04-13)This paper is the first to study the factors that affect a firm's performance in a developing country of Central Asia. We use profit margin as an indicator of a company's performance and consider the rate of profit as a ...
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