We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across … a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …

Countries making the transition to a market economy often experience an increase in corruption along with an increase …

-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows …

diverged so much over the transition period while the skill composition of employment did not. Our approach in analyzing the …

One feature common to many post-socialist transition economies is a relatively compressed wage structure in the state … acquisition and thus presents adverse consequences for the entire transition economy if a substantial portion of the labor force … outcomes, in a transition setting with matched firm and worker data collected in one of the largest provinces of Vietnam – Ho …

In most countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, the transition to market … fall in employment since 1990 has been similar to other transition economies, leading to a sharp reduction of labor force …

reach 10 percent early on and remain at this high level. These estimates are larger than for other transition economies, but …

the transition following the CR were not associated directly with workers changing jobs or with taking “new-economy” jobs …