The transition from plan to market provides a rare opportunity for insight into the endogenous development of economic … were disrupted during the transition period, leading to an increase in the transaction costs for firms. Blanchard and … transition. Though this argument is correct, we believe that this and similar works stop short of a fuller characterisation of …

This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on … increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill?favoring shifts in … employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes … using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who …

We look at the differences in regional unemployment rates in six major transition countries and their persistence over …

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 …

Labor mobility is crucial for an efficient allocation of resources and the transition economies are often viewed as … that it occurred with lower incidence and duration of unemployment than in the other transition economies. The demographic … characteristics of different patterns of mobility are similar across these transition economies: we identify younger people in general …

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 …

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 …