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 …

market economy in Poland. These individual experiences are matched with outcomes observed in the survey about 20 years later …

On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local … inclusiveness in the process of development is likely to be an important factor behind the stability of Poland's administrative …

return data to reevaluate distributional consequences of the post-socialist transition in Poland. Our approach results in the … that over the last three decades Poland has become one of the most unequal European countries among those for which top …

flatter in Russia and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and … private sectors do not look very different. State and private sector firms in Poland offer the same wages to new recruits, but … of a continued job match unsure, offset, in Poland at least, by insider resistance to layoffs …