adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …

payment equilibrium." Our econometric analysis of linked employer-employee data for Russia supports the model's contention …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but … later, and on average over the whole transition, this relationship is reversed. Though reallocation rates are larger in …

Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …

, but increased slightly during the transition, while job destruction rose markedly. Heterogeneity in firm employment change … during the socialist period, while they have made a strong positive contribution during the transition. Privatization and …

Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent a dramatic transformation. Notably … climate and access to global markets associated with the EU accession. For a long time enterprises in transition economies … hire more workers. However, the emerging skills shortages may constrain firm growth. Thus the transition economies face a …

transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in … Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …