Documents & Reports
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Tax Incentives to Encourage Corporate Investment in Latvia : Preliminary Version (English)
This paper analyzes the effect of accelerated depreciation (AD) policy on firm investment using administrative firm-level data for 2007-14. We find that past use of AD had a positive effect on firm investment...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 139824 Document Date: June 28, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hazans,Mihails,Pluta,Anna
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Latvia tax review (English)
Latvia's Ministry of Finance requested the World Bank to collaborate on a review of the country's tax system as input for the design a medium-term tax strategy. The motivation behind the tax review is...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 120580 Document Date: October 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Jacobs,Bas,Sinnott,Emily,Skrok,Emilia,Hazans,Mihails,Mosberger,Palma,Pluta,Anna,Rastrigina,Olga,Dillinger,William R.
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Latvia tax review (English)
Latvia’s Ministry of Finance requested the World Bank to collaborate on a review of the country’s tax system as input for the design a medium-term tax strategy. The motivation behind the tax review is...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 117120 Document Date: June 28, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sinnott,Emily,Skrok,Emilia,Engelschalk,Michael,Hazans,Mihails,Fanning,John James,Dillinger,William R.,Jacobs,Bas,Gaska, Jan,Holda,Paulina Ewa,Mosberger,Palma,Pluta,Anna,Rastrigina,Olga,Jurušs, Maris
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Informal workers across Europe : evidence from 30 European countries (English)
The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment in 30 countries, focusing on employees without contracts and on informal self-employed workers (who are distinguished from formal...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5912 Document Date: December 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hazans,Mihails
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What explains prevalence of informal employment in European countries : the role of labor institutions, governance, immigrants, and growth (English)
This paper looks into institutional and other macro determinants of prevalence of informal dependent employment, as well as informal self-employment, in European countries, using European Social Survey...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5917 Document Date: December 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hazans,Mihails
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Beyond Transition 18 (1) (Russian)
EMU Enlargement: why flexibility matters, by Philipp Maier and Maarten Hendrikx. Gains from risk sharing in the EU, by Yuliya Demyanyk and Vadym Volosovych. Postponing Euro area expectations? by Tanel...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 40957 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Balcerowicz, Ewa,Broadman,Harry G.,Coolidge,Jacqueline,Demyanyk,Yuliya,Dushkevych, Natalya,Haughton, Tim,Havrylchyk, Olena,Hazans,Mihails,Hendrikx, Maarten,Jurzyk, Emilia,Kaminski, Bartlomiej,Kisunko,Gregory,Liwinski, Jacek,Lokshin,Michael M.,Maier, Philipp,Malova, Darina,Ng,Francis K. T.,Paci,Pierella,Ross, Tanel,Sajaia,Zurab,Stoilkova,Maria M.,Tiongson,Erwin H. R.,Volosovych, Vadym,Walewski, Mateusz,Wilson,John Martin,Luo,Xubei,Yakovlev, Evgeny,Zelenyuk, Valentin,Zhuravskaya,Ekaterina
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Beyond Transition 18 (1) (English)
EMU Enlargement: why flexibility matters, by Philipp Maier and Maarten Hendrikx. Gains from risk sharing in the EU, by Yuliya Demyanyk and Vadym Volosovych. Postponing Euro area expectations? by Tanel...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 40957 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Balcerowicz, Ewa,Broadman,Harry G.,Coolidge,Jacqueline,Demyanyk,Yuliya,Dushkevych, Natalya,Haughton, Tim,Havrylchyk, Olena,Hazans,Mihails,Hendrikx, Maarten,Jurzyk, Emilia,Kaminski, Bartlomiej,Kisunko,Gregory,Liwinski, Jacek,Lokshin,Michael M.,Maier, Philipp,Malova, Darina,Ng,Francis K. T.,Paci,Pierella,Ross, Tanel,Sajaia,Zurab,Stoilkova,Maria M.,Tiongson,Erwin H. R.,Volosovych, Vadym,Walewski, Mateusz,Wilson,John Martin,Luo,Xubei,Yakovlev, Evgeny,Zelenyuk, Valentin,Zhuravskaya,Ekaterina
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Beyond transition 16 (2) (English)
In this issue: Global poverty reduction via expanding opportunities; by Timothy Besley, Robin Burgess, and David Donaldson. Interview with Alberto Alesina. Good_bye Lenin (or not)? The effect of communism...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 35666 Document Date: April 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alesina,Alberto,Alexandrova, Anastasia,Besley,Timothy John,Burgess,Robin Stuart L.,Denisova,Irina,Donaldson,David John,Fuchs-Schuendeln, Nicola,Garcia Marin,Alvaro Felipe,Grishina,Elena,Hazans,Mihails,Hertel,Thomas W.,Ivanov,Andrey Vladimirovich,Nussbaumer, Michel,Paci,Pierella,Rastrigina,Olga,Rutherford,Thomas F.,Sasin, Marcin, J.,Shepotylo, Olesandr,Smith, Preston,Tarr,David,Trapexnikova, Ija,Verbeek,Jos,Zhai,Fan
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Beyond transition 16 (2) (Russian)
In this issue: Global poverty reduction via expanding opportunities; by Timothy Besley, Robin Burgess, and David Donaldson. Interview with Alberto Alesina. Good_bye Lenin (or not)? The effect of communism...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 35666 Document Date: April 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alesina,Alberto,Alexandrova, Anastasia,Besley,Timothy John,Burgess,Robin Stuart L.,Denisova,Irina,Donaldson,David John,Fuchs-Schuendeln, Nicola,Garcia Marin,Alvaro Felipe,Grishina,Elena,Hazans,Mihails,Hertel,Thomas W.,Ivanov,Andrey Vladimirovich,Nussbaumer, Michel,Paci,Pierella,Rastrigina,Olga,Rutherford,Thomas F.,Sasin, Marcin, J.,Shepotylo, Olesandr,Smith, Preston,Tarr,David,Trapexnikova, Ija,Verbeek,Jos,Zhai,Fan
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Unemployment and the earnings structure in Latvia (English)
Latvia has recorded sustained GDP and productivity growth since 1997. Yet unemployment rates, despite gradual decrease, have remained high. The paper explores the mysteries of unemployment in Latvia. It...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3504 Document Date: February 1, 2005 Author: Hazans,Mihails