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market economy in Poland. These individual experiences are matched with outcomes observed in the survey about 20 years later …
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turbulence; a large economy with rigid labor markets, Poland, and a small open economy with increased flexibility, Estonia. We …. Quantitative exercises suggest that the over-specialization of the labor force in Poland led to much higher and persistent …
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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 …
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This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about …
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, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to estimate dynamic employment equations for the period immediately before and after the start of … Poland. …
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This paper provides an illustration of the changing tolerance for inequality in a context of radical political and economic transformation and rapid economic growth. We focus on the Polish transition experience, and explore individuals' self-reported attitudes. Using unusually long and frequent...
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The collective model of labour supply opened the household "black box" and allowed for individual treatment of partners in couples. However, the literature on labour supply has so far largely ignored a broader issue with special relevance to transition and developing countries - the distinction...
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This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
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