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 …

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

of micro data sets from between 1980's and 2010 for both advanced market economies and economies undergoing transition … from central planning to market based system. We show that wage inequality was initially lower in transition economies and … between structural change and wages in both advanced and post-transition economies, despite the predictions from skill …

for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or …

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 …

transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys … collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that Kyrgyzstan, like Eastern European middle income transition economies, generally …, who were exposed to the transition during their school years, experienced a rapid decline in educational mobility. We also …