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Post-enlargement emigration and new EU members' labor markets : outmigration has contributed to increasing wages and decreasing unemployment in the new EU member states but may als...
Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2014
stayers, as well as to lower unemployment in the source country. However, emigration has also exacerbated skills shortages in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417106
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Explaining the Increase in Inequality During the Transition
Milanovic, Branko - 1999
, Latvia, Poland, Russia and Slovenia) over the period 1987-95. We find that the most important factor driving overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197308
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Explaining the Increase in Inequality During the Transition
Milanovic, Branko - 2004
-95), Hungary (1987-93), Latvia (1989-96), Poland (1987-95), Russia (1989-94), and Slovenia (1987-95). In all countries, wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197472
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Foreign direct investment and employment in transition economies
Estrin, Saul - 2017
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been argued to improve company performance and stimulate growth and employment. Transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) faced a desperate need to join the global economy, to improve their competitiveness and to create jobs through FDI. So, did...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665017
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Shocked by therapy? : unemployment in the first years of the socio-economic transition in Poland and its long-term consequences
Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - 2018
We examine long-term implications of unemployment for material conditions and well-being using the Polish sample from … to examine their correlation with unemployment at the time of the transition. We find that becoming unemployed in the … confirm the causal effect of unemployment on income and house ownership 20 years later, but find no evidence for a long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798238
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New firms entry, labor reallocation, and institutions in transition economies : in transition economies, better property rights protection and rule of law enforcement can boost job...
Bruno, Randolph - 2015
In the transition from central planning to a market economy in the 1990s, governments focused on privatizing or closing state enterprises, reforming labor markets, compensating laid-off workers, and fostering job creation through new private firms. After privatization, the focus shifted to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433515
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The distribution of wages in transition countries
Newell, Andrew - 2001
This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition countries since the collapse of communism. Most countries experienced an increase in wage inequality during the initial shock of the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400803
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Worker-Firm Matching and Unemployment in Transition to a Market Economy : (Why) are the Czechs More Successful than Others?
Munich, Daniel - 2010
In this paper we compare the nature and determinants of outflows from unemployment in the case of the Czech and Slovak … exceptionally low unemployment rate in the Czech Republic as compared to Slovakia and the other Central and East European economies … has been brought about principally by (1) a rapid increase in vacancies along with unemployment, resulting in a balanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149069
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Privatization in Transition Economies : Privatization Scale and Country Size
Goel, Rajeev K.; Budak, Jelena - 2016
determinants. Particularly, privatization scales are sensitive to changes in economic prosperity, unemployment and inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058980
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Worker-Firm Matching and Unemployment in Transition to a Market Economy : (Why) are the Czechs More Successful than Others?
Munich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 1999
In this paper we compare the nature and determinants of outflows from unemployment in the case of the Czech and Slovak … exceptionally low unemployment rate in the Czech Republic as compared to Slovakia and the other Central and East European economies … has been brought about principally by (1) a rapid increase in vacancies along with unemployment, resulting in a balanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044937