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The Tale of Two Transitions : The Changing Income Distributions in Poland & Russia

Berkowitz, Daniel; Jackson, John E. - 2004

Differences in the evolution of income distribution in Poland and Russia in the postsocialist era are striking: for … example, in Poland, the gini coefficient on earnings went from 0.22 to 0.30 between 1990 and 1997 while in Russia it went from ….3 percentage points in the Russian regions, 2001. Our results suggest that early privatization in Poland was more successful in …

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Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Income Distributions in Poland and Russia

Berkowitz, Daniel; Jackson, John E. - 2005

Differences in the evolution of income distribution in Poland and Russia in the post-socialist era are striking: for … example, in Poland, the gini coefficient on earnings went from 0.28 to 0.33 between 1988 and 1998 while in Russia it went from ….25 percentage points in the Russian regions between 1995 and 2001. Our results suggest that early privatization in Poland was more …

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Job Creation, Destruction and Transition in Poland, 1988-1998: Panel Evidence

Jackson, John E.; Mach, Bogdan W. - 2002

Longitudinal data from interviews with Poles of working age conducted in 1988, 1993 and 1998 present a detailed view of the transition from a state dominated to a market economy. Job loss in state firms and job creation in new private firms are the dominant employment change, other than...

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Democratic Institutions and Economic Reform: the Polish Case

Jackson, John E.; Klich, Jacek; Poznanska, Krystyna - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

Analysis of the economic transformation of the Polish economy and of the 1993 elections for Parliament suggest that it is possible to proceed with pro-market and democratic reforms simultaneously. As demonstrated by the Polish case, the key to this process is the rate at which new enterprises...

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Job Creation, Destruction and Transition in Poland, 1988-1998: Panel Evidence

Jackson, John E.; Mach, Bogdan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

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Economic Transition and Elections in Poland

Jackson, John E.; Klich, Jacek; Poznanska, Krystyna - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001

Poland's economic and political transition, one of the most successful transitions, has depended very heavily on the …

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