The breakdown of the communist regime in Eastern Europe marked a historical event for countries on both sides of the iron curtain. Applying the recently released EU KLEMS database on sectoral growth and productivity measures, we study the period after the transformational recession 1995-2004 for...

The rapid advance and diffusion of new information technologies left pronounced imprints on the formation of human capital. Firstly, it favoured the growth of specific computer related occupations, secondly it raises the demand for higher levels of workforce education. Although IT equipment is...