suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …

explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as …Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian … Mortality Crisis"). Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol related causes and among working …

Labor mobility is crucial for an efficient allocation of resources and the transition economies are often viewed as … that it occurred with lower incidence and duration of unemployment than in the other transition economies. The demographic … characteristics of different patterns of mobility are similar across these transition economies: we identify younger people in general …

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

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of … ability to influence law enforcement. Our econometric results, for about 950 firms in five transition economies, provide …

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 … employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …

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