Poland's economy has been outstanding if we take GDP growth as our measure. It is not specific reforms that can explain this …-friendly governments were voted out of office, the new governments in Poland never reversed reforms undertaken by the previous government …

flatter in Russia than 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. …