Mayer (2000). We test our model by using imports of Hungary, Romania, and Slovenia from the European Union (EU) and Central …

Foreign direct investments (FDI) are the engine of the economic development in the developing countries, but also in … economy; these former communist countries had non efficient economies, and at the beginning of the transition they did not had …

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 …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but … later, and on average over the whole transition, this relationship is reversed. Though reallocation rates are larger in …

science-based or to use research and development intensively, in the East Central European (ECE) context. On the basis of case …

% in Hungary, and 3% in Ukraine, with some variation across specifications, while in Russia it lowers it about 4 …. The positive effects emerge within a year in Hungary, Romania, and Ukraine and continue to grow thereafter, but are still …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, more reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but … later, and on average over the whole transition, this relationship is reversed. Though reallocation rates are larger in …