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Labour Market Transitions of Individuals in Eastern and Western Europe
Grogan, L.A.
Publication date
2000
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Grogan, L. A. (2000). Labour Market Transitions of Individuals in Eastern and Western
Europe. Tinbergen Institute Research Series.
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Preface e
Thiss thesis is the result of research which I have been carrying out since September,, 1996 at the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam. Many people havee helped me along the way.
Firstt of all, I am grateful to Professor Siv Gustafsson, and to Professor Audraa Bowlus of the University of Western Ontario, who supervised, pro-moted,, and advised me. The joint projects I have undertaken with Audra Bowluss and Gerard van den Berg have been a great stimulation to me. As well,, I am very thankful for the existence of the Tinbergen Institute, which providedd me with a lot of ideas and inspiration through it's labour economic seminarr series, and which put me into contact with my co-authors. I thank Maartenn Lindeboom for his help on Chapter 2, and the encouragement he showedd to me as the Director of Graduate Studies. Katarina Katz of Stock-holmm University provided many helpful tips, and I look forward to working withh her more on the Taganrog data.
Thankss to Charles, Aico and Bas for a lot of GAUSS tips. For the Dutch summaryy of the thesis, I am grateful to Aico for his generous exchange of a littlee Spanish for a lot of Dutch. I am grateful to Albert Nijnik for help on thee Russian summary. Arjen gave a lot of useful TeXnical advice. My native Englishh speaker emergency squad-Audra, Erica, and Ruta-did a great, quick jobb of cleaning up after me. The help and friendliness of Jeroen, Elfie and Mariann has got me through a lot of rainy days in Amsterdam.
II have benefited from the generous support of the Dutch Organisation forr Scientific Research (NWO), who funded research visits to St. Petersburg Statee University, the Institute for Socio-Economic and Population Issues in Moscow,, and the Russian European Center for Economic Policy. As well, I havee benefited from the EC's Training and Mobility of Researchers funds, whichh supported two research visits to CEPS/INSTEAD in Luxembourg. I amm grateful to the CEPR, who funded my participation at their workshop on transitionn economics for young academics in May 1999. The Social Sciences andd Humanities Research Council of Canada funded a stay at the University off Western Ontario for work on labour market behavior and gender wage differentials. .
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Mostt of all, I would like to thank my parents, my friends in Amsterdam, andd those around the world, for years of encouragement and inspiration. Albert,, Alison, Aljaz, Anthony, Charles, Dani, Ibolya, Erica, Irinka, Jeroen, Luc,, Maria, Mathijs, Mauro, Ruta, Silvia, and many others, have been sup-portivee through difficult and exciting moments. You are my Amsterdam. Thank-you. .
