East Germany underwent rapid transition from a socialist to a market economy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are … interested in whether women are better off or worse off relative to men as a result of this transition. We use the German Socio …

structural shocks in the labor markets, using several decades of individual data for a wide selection of transition countries. We … find that for cohorts who entered the labor market after the onset of transition. Labor market shocks lead to significant … market during the transition. By contrast, we fail to find any significant relation for cohorts already active in the labor …

behavior of adjusted gender wage gaps in a wide selection of transition countries. We estimate comparable measures of adjusted … gender wage gaps for a comprehensive selection of transition countries over a period spanning nearly three decades. We … combine these estimates with measures of labor market reallocation in transition economies. We identify the episodes of …

Economic insecurity is an inherent characteristic of the transition from a planned economy to a market-oriented economy …