Ten years after the start of transition, there are many puzzles we still have to live with. Why did all countries … labour supply. Surprisingly enough, the literature on the economics of transition has devoted little, if any, attention to … labour force participation decisions. In the models of the optimal speed of transition (OST) literature, the labour force is …

We explore data from all transition economies over nearly two decades, providing insights on the mechanisms behind …

We explore data from all transition economies over nearly two decades, providing insights on the mechanisms behind …

evolution of unemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies. The comparison of the transition …

Ten years after the start of transition, there are many puzzles we still have to live with. Why did all countries … supply. Surprisingly enough, the literature on the economics of transition has devoted little, if any, attention to labor … force participation decisions. In the models of the optimal speed of transition (OST) literature, the labor force is …

This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition … the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem to be sectoral shifts in employment and increasing inter …

country. In many transition economies TFP is seen to have been negative the last decade of the plan economy and starts … increasing and become positive after a (quite a) few years of transition. Many authors conclude that this is a gain in efficiency …

are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000 adults in six transition economies. Estimated selfemployment earnings premia … related to schooling, pre-transition family income, receipt of property in restitution, precommunist family business …

micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market … economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it is a leading transition economy in which the communist grid remained … firms during the transition. Our estimates also indicate that men's wage-experience profile was concave in both regimes and …