Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new … micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market … economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it is a leading transition economy in which the communist grid remained …

evolution of unemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies. The comparison of the transition …

employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector … compensation in the public sector. Using the conditions of labor market equilibrium, we develop an aggregate measure of bribery and …

This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow …

change during the late transition period, and reinforced by market adjustment of wage ratio to the true differences in labor …This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on … increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill–favoring shifts in …

importance in balancing cyclical fluctuations in labor demand. Does THS employment provide some benefits to disadvantaged workers …

them to native Germans. Our analysis is guided by the human capital and segmented labor market theories. To assess the … separate effects of occupational segmentation and discrimination in the allocation of occupations and wages we conceptualize …

The existence of compensating differentials in Russian labor and housing markets is examined using data from the …. While Russia is undergoing transition to a market economy, we find ample evidence that compensating differentials for … location-specific amenities exist in the labor and housing markets. Our estimated wage and housing value equations suggest that …

effect of taxes on labor supply of males and females. We apply the weighted difference-in-difference regression approach and … instrumental variables to the labor supply function estimated on individual panel data. The mean regression results indicate that … responses, the aggregate labor supply elasticities are trivial and suggest that reform-induced changes in labor supply were an …