"Anders als in den westlichen Industriestaaten stehen in den RGW-Ländern die Regelungen des Übergangs in den Ruhestand völlig unter dem Eindruck daß Arbeitskräftemangel herrsche. Sowohl die Anwendung der flexiblen Altersgrenze wie auch die Erhöhung materieller Anreize zur Fortsetzung der...

"Anders als in den westlichen Industriestaaten stehen in den RGW-Ländern die Regelungen des Übergangs in den Ruhestand völlig unter dem Eindruck daß Arbeitskräftemangel herrsche. Sowohl die Anwendung der flexiblen Altersgrenze wie auch die Erhöhung materieller Anreize zur Fortsetzung der...

We look at the differences in regional unemployment rates in six major transition countries and their persistence over time. We analyse the role various adjustment mechanisms play. While movement out of the labour force seems to be one consequence in many regions with high relative unemployment,...

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable ?quasi-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the international competitiveness of the Turkish economy and the structure of specialisation in foreign trade in comparison with the five EU candidate countries Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Rumania, Poland and the EU/15. This research work...

Following up on a previous paper by the same author on the contribution of ICT capital to growth and labor productivity in Poland 1995-2000, this paper extends the study to eight transition economies: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia. The paper shows that...

Many governments offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of spillover benefits. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is generally perceived as the best channel for technology transfer, not only across national boundaries but also between firms - in...