We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across … a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …

An extensive literature has analysed the economic effects of transition patterns in Central and Eastern European and … concerned the dynamics of income inequality. In this paper we analyse the heterogeneous effects of transition reforms on … inequality by explicitly considering their speed and sequencing. To this aim we identify seven transition models in which the 27 …

Following the collapse of planning, new small and medium-sized firms rapidly emerged in all transition economies. Using … formerly planned economies with those in economies outside transition, we document not only the challenges faced by transition …

We extend the scarce evidence on labor supply in post-transition countries by estimating the wage elasticity of labor …

We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland. We find that inequality in … increased earnings inequality during transition. However, our decomposition of the sources of the increase in inequality …

In this paper we estimate the impact of transition on earnings inequality using data across Polish regions 1994 … relationship between earnings inequality and the stage of transition across regions remains when we apply an infrastructure …

-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows …