This Working Paper studies ways to stimulate the private rental sector (PRS) of the housing market – and compares experiences with policies and reforms in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and the Czech Republic. Although in many countries the PRS has decreased in importance since the Second...

Title Page -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Meaning of 'transition' -- The goal of the book -- Preliminary questions -- Theoretical and methodological framework -- Theories on housing systems' development -- Inspiration in comparative housing studies -- What...

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable ?quasi-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...