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Job Creation, Destruction and Transition in Poland, 1988-1998: Panel Evidence

Jackson, John E.; Mach, Bogdan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Longitudinal data from interviews with Poles of working age conducted in 1988, 1993 and 1998 present a detailed view of the transition from a state dominated to a market economy. Job loss in state firms and job creation in new private firms are the dominant employment change, other than...

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Democratic Institutions and Economic Reform: the Polish Case

Jackson, John E.; Klich, Jacek; Poznanska, Krystyna - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

Analysis of the economic transformation of the Polish economy and of the 1993 elections for Parliament suggest that it is possible to proceed with pro-market and democratic reforms simultaneously. As demonstrated by the Polish case, the key to this process is the rate at which new enterprises...

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Economic Transition and Elections in Poland

Jackson, John E.; Klich, Jacek; Poznanska, Krystyna - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001

Poland's economic and political transition, one of the most successful transitions, has depended very heavily on the …

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Enterprise Restructuring in Russia's Transition Economy: Formal and Informal Mechanisms

Linz, Susan J.; Krueger, Gary - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

This paper examines the nature and scope of enterprise restructuring in Russia using two sources of firm-level data … restructuring measures that have been used in studies of privatized firms in Russia and other transition economies. Second, we apply … in Russia. …

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Virtual Reality: Barter and Restructuring in Russian Industry

Krueger, Gary; Linz, Susan J. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2000

whether the lack of economic growth is caused by the lack of enterprise restructuring. Complicating the debate in Russia is … demonstrating why the virtual economy model fails to accurately depict economic actions or outcomes in Russia. We develop the … evidence of the lack of enterprise restructuring in Russia stem from: (1) the lack of clear consensus about what constitutes …

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