The transition process has had different distributional impacts across different interest groups and countries. These … have led to differences in the support for transition. In this paper, we study support attitudes for both the economic and … political transition using data from the New Barometer Surveys for 14 transition economies from 1991 to 2004. We document that …

are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000 adults in six transition economies. Estimated selfemployment earnings premia … related to schooling, pre-transition family income, receipt of property in restitution, precommunist family business …

for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or …. -- exchange rate regime ; structural reform ; panel data ; political economy of reform ; transition countries …

Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian … consumption and mortality during the campaign experienced larger transition era increases, and (3) Other former Soviet states and … explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as …

interhousehold transfers. Russian households have experienced large reductions in income during the post-Soviet transition period …

Using newly available data, we re-evaluate the impact of transition from plan to market in former communist countries … on objective and subjective well-being. We find clear evidence of the high social cost of early transition reforms …: cohorts born around the start of transition are shorter than their older or younger peers. The difference in height suggests …

The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …

satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries - a U-shaped swing and a nil or declining trend … ; happiness ; life satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; transition countries ; China …

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