We explore data from all transition economies over nearly two decades, providing insights on the mechanisms behind …

We explore data from all transition economies over nearly two decades, providing insights on the mechanisms behind …

We look at the differences in regional unemployment rates in six major transition countries and their persistence over …

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 …

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 …

In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria … and Romania. Using comparable firm level data over the years 1993- 1997, we find that in early transition job destruction … dominates job creation, while the latter is picking up as the country enters into a mature stage of transition. Gross job …

In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria … and Romania. Using comparable firm level data over the years 1993- 1997, we find that in early transition job destruction … dominates job creation, while the latter is picking up as the country enters into a mature stage of transition. Gross job …

unemployed in the outflow from unemployment, (3) a matching process with strongly increasing returns to scale throughout (rather … than only in parts of) the transition period, and (4) ability to keep the long term unemployed at relatively low levels ….Using the framework of matching functions we find that in many years the usual Cobb-Douglas specification and the hypothesis of …