We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across … a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …

communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to … returns to education obtained during communism vs. transition; no change in wage-experience profiles over time; and similar … the planners did; all the adjustment occurred in early transition and was driven by market forces rather than private …

The gradualist approach to economic transition in Belarus would contribute to form the a priori expectation that the …

transition period while the skill composition of employment did not. Our approach in analyzing the sources of cross …

-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows …

In this paper we estimate the impact of transition on earnings inequality using data across Polish regions 1994 … relationship between earnings inequality and the stage of transition across regions remains when we apply an infrastructure …

the transition period 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase occurred predominantly in the … lower part of the wage distribution for women and in the upper part for men. Sectoral transition affected women to a much …

This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition … the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem to be sectoral shifts in employment and increasing inter …