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Accounting for Variations in Trade Union Effectiveness: State-Labor Relations in East Central Europe

Avdagic, Sabina - 2003

This paper offers an explanation for variations in the effectiveness of trade unions to obtain legislative and policy concessions in peak-level tripartite negotiations in post-communist East Central Europe. I examine the usefulness of some standard interpretations for such variations, namely...

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Wage and employment effects of a wage norm: The Polish transition experience

De Crombrugghe, Alain; De Walque, Gregory - 2011

Most transition countries used tax-supported wage norms in the early 1990's, as a part of their market liberalization programs. This paper analyses how a firm-level tax (or subsidy) on deviations from a pre-set wage norm may promote employment by rotating the labor demand curve perceived by the...

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The merits of insider privatization: What Russia can learn from Eastern Central Europe

Heinrich, Ralph P. - 1993

The debate on the privatization of enterprises in Eastern Europe often presumes that enterprises are still controlled … adopt a myopic attitude, and neglect the long-run profitability of their firms. Centrally organized privatization programs …. However, such privatization programs challenge the present position of managers, workers, and local bureaucrats. The insiders …

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The legacy of state socialism as a challenge to systemic transformation: Poland in comparative perspective

Adamski, Wladyslaw - 1998

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The Emergence of Large Shareholders in Mass Privatized Firms: Evidence from Poland and the Czech Republic

Grosfeld, Irena; Hashi, Iraj - 2004

Mass privatization offers a particularly suitable framework to study the change in ownership concentration as the … extent of change is unusual for a stable market economy. Focusing on two different mass privatization schemes in two …

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Foreign direct investment in the privatisation of the Polish economy

Wojnicka, Elżbieta - In: Intereconomics 36 (2001) 6, pp. 305-314

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The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002

Newell, Andrew; Socha, Mieczysław W. - 2005

This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about 1998 there were some forces tending to increase wage inequality and other forces contracting it. The result was a relatively constant level of inequality. Privatisation was the...

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Privatisation debates in Poland before and after communist demise: A comparative perspective

Winiecki, Jan - 1991

Poland and Hungary, the most persistent tinkerers with the Soviet economic system, became also the first communist countries to have allowed debates on the need to rearrange the structure of property rights in the economy as a way to improve its performance. Elsewhere, until the end of the...

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Political economy of privatisation: Poland in comparative perspective

Winiecki, Jan - 1991

Regardless of one's stand on the privatisation issue, there is certainly one point on which all protagonists and antagonists of privatisation agree. This is the political importance of the issue in question. Privatisation part of the transition to the market system is a major political, nor only...

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Polish agriculture and food processing industry: Facts and prospects

Dicke, Hugo; Misala, Józef - 1993

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