1989/90 ging von den Gesellschaften östlich des Eisernen Vorhangs ein großer Freiheitsimpuls aus. Doch der brachte dort den Verlust von Arbeitsplätzen, sozialer Sicherheit und politischen Gewissheiten. Die jüngste Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas ist voller Brüche, Neuanfänge und Umwälzungen....

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 have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...

We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...