Working Papers


Working papers - academic research on economy aimed at enhancing the knowledge about economic processes, problems and trends through development of new theories and concepts. The results of these studies are published in leading international journals, as for example SAGE Knowledge, Journal of Economic Development, Research Policy (Science Direct)Baltic Journal of Economics, Eastern Economic Journal and etc.

Alina Verashchagina|Francesco Pastore| 11.04.2010
When Does Transition Increase the Gender Wage Gap?
This is the first paper to study the evolution of the gender wage gap in the Republic of Belarus.
Alina Verashchagina| 11.09.2009
Education and Socioeconomic Mobility in Post-Communist Countries
This paper investigates the trends in intergenerational educational mobility in thirteen post-communist economies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU) for which little empirical evidence has been made available thus far.
Maksim Yemelyanau| 11.09.2009
Second Agriculture in Belarus and Ukraine: Aubsistence or Leisure?
In this paper the author uses household budget surveys from both countries to explain and quantify the roles of the “second agriculture”in both Belarus and Ukraine and to shed light on the surprising patterns.
Yury Yatsynovich| 11.07.2009
Quality of Institutions and Private Investments in Infrastructure
This article investigates the impact of institutional environment on the volumes of private investments in infrastructural sectors in low and middle income countries.
Maksim Yemelyanau| 11.04.2009
Inequality in Belarus from 1995 to 2007
This paper studies the evolution of inequality in Belarus in 1995-2007, decomposes inequality by sources of income, and provides a comparison of Belarus and Ukraine.