Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in “gradualist” Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity …

n Russia and Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase … is much bigger in Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine … diverged so much over the transition period while the skill composition of employment did not. Our approach in analyzing the …

The paper presents a model of the agro-food system in a transition economy, which shows howthe move from a planned to a … complementary approaches formeasuring the success of agricultural transition, where success is defined as increasing consumerwelfare … assessment of Russian agriculturalreform using the two evaluation approaches shows that only modest progress has been made.Russia …

thesis is the transition of the manufacturing industry in the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg. After reunification … with West Berlin provides information about the current state in the transition process.The data used in this study is … on productivity growth, and additionally export behavior has to be persistent over time. Both conditions are empirically …

The literature on economics of transition has suggested a number of scenarios to explain unemployment and labour … reallocation in Eastern Europe. However, it has recently been argued that these so-called Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) studies …-to-job shifts of workers, development of an informal labour market, etc.). The transformation in Russia has witnessed an increase in …

transition to a market economy in Ukraine. In this case the efficiencyis calculated by data envelopment analysis and the …This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agriculturalenterprises during their … productivity change is measured by theMalmquist Productivity Change Index in the period between 1990 and 1999. On average …

across the distribution of wages in Ukraine during communism (1986), the start of transition (1991), and after Ukraine …

across the distribution of wages in Ukraine during communism (1986), the start of transition (1991), and after Ukraine …

intensity, and labor productivity, but only weakly to job and worker turnover. Little evidence is found that firms’ employment … adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …