Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a unique harmonised, linked employer-employee data set, the 2002 European … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …

"This paper presents and analyses the sharp increase in hourly wage inequality after 1998 in Poland. The increase was …

find evidence in favor of the Polish wage curve with an unemployment elasticity of -0.06. We also find that males in Poland …

We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland. We find that inequality in … substantially, and by similar amounts. This illustrates how even state-owned enterprises in Poland moved towards competitive wage …, in contrast to the U.S. and U.K. experiences, increases in within-group inequality in Poland were very different across …

This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about …