The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … in transition, including the relatively low importance of unemployment and the existence of poverty even among households … with employment. Poverty determinants change over time in line with the experience of transition and restructuring. …

This paper suggests a method of approximating the development of investment in transition economies through an … investment in transition countries. In contrast to standard adjustment costs, which predict a sharp rise in investment due to the …

We analyze self-reported measures of satisfaction with life in a transition country, Kyrgyzstan, using 1993 household …

This paper suggests a method of approximating the development of investment in transition economies through an … investment in transition countries. In contrast to standard adjustment costs, which predict a sharp rise in investment due to the …

micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market … economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it is a leading transition economy in which the communist grid remained … firms during the transition. Our estimates also indicate that men's wage-experience profile was concave in both regimes and …

private sector. The transition is shown to be costly in that it entails unemployment and a deterioration of the fiscal balance …. The interaction of fiscal constraints with the transition process is examined. It is shown that fiscal constraints may … induce the government to maintain the state sector, slowing the speed of transition, and could jeopardize the eventual …

This Paper surveys the theoretical literature on the effect of soft budget constraints (SBC) on economies in transition … centralized economies, devolution, and banking reform in transition economies. Moreover, we argue that SBC also bear on major …

This paper presents evidence on the behavior of output and inflation in the transition economies during 1992-95. A … regression analysis explores the differences in output performance across the transition economies during this period. The paper … then engages in a numerical, somewhat speculative, exercise to assess the long-run growth potential ofthe transition …

This paper analyzes the growth and stabilization experience in 26 transition economies in eastern Europe, the former …