considered as in transition to a full market economy, and that of the present EU members. The raw data shows some evidence of … capita income gap between developed and transition economies leads to a decrease in the energy intensity growth rate of a … transition country by 0.7%. There are differences in the rate of convergence across countries, and these depend on two parameters …

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 …

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of … ability to influence law enforcement. Our econometric results, for about 950 firms in five transition economies, provide …

In the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe life satisfaction has followed the V-shaped pattern of … asymmetric response of life satisfaction to decreases in GDP in transition countries and increases in GDP in non-transition …

This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed … cover thousands of firms from virtually all transition countries over a long time period (1996-99 through 2002-05), as well … convergence of transition countries with developed market economies in a number of dimensions. The pattern of growth at the …