survey data for East Germany, Poland, and Slovenia, with ISSP data for Western countries, to examine the extent to which … between Hungary and the other previously communist countries and in Western countries to suggest that communism left an …

Based on matching household surveys for three central European countries, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland, we explore the …

Poland so far. We then develop a model and use it to think about the determinants of the speed of transition and the level of … unemployment. Finally, we return to the role of policy and the future in Poland, as well as the causes of cross-Central European …

Poland, Hungary. and Czechoslovakia and develop a model of changing support for reforms during the transition to a market … to seek consensus on labor issues -- as they had done under reform communism. By contrast, labor market outcomes changed … massive vacancies. The dispersion of wages increased substantially in Hungary and Poland though not in Czechoslovakia. My …

By the end of 1991, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland have achieved a substantial degree of openness to foreign trade … impressive in all three countries, and import booms are under way in at least Hungary and Poland as well. However, there is no … collapse of the CMEA represents a significant shock, amounting to a loss of real income of 3 1/2 percent of GDP in Poland and 7 …

privatization, with emphasis on Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Progress in privatizing small firms has been rapid in several …

This paper examines the inflation targeting experience in three transition countries: the Czech Republic, Poland and …