This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on … increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill–favoring shifts in … employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …

are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000 adults in six transition economies. Estimated self-employment earnings premia … related to schooling, pre-transition family income, receipt of property in restitution, pre-communist family business …

’. Ukraine and Russia began the market transition with broadly similar institutions, industrial structures and levels of … transition.<P>Le secteur manufacturier russe et la menace du « syndrome néerlandais » Comparaison du développement de la …’industrie manufacturière en Russie serait affectée par le ‘syndrome néerlandais’. L’Ukraine et la Russie ont commencé leur transition vers l …

diverged so much over the transition period while the skill composition of employment did not. Our approach in analyzing the …