The aim of this study is to clarify, whether and where the widespread opinion that systemic change from socialism to capitalism went along with dramatically rising inequality is true and how income distribution does affect the overall growth performance of transition countries. The countries...

Following up on a previous paper by the same author on the contribution of ICT capital to growth and labor productivity in Poland 1995-2000, this paper extends the study to eight transition economies: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia. The paper shows that...

In a simple growth model we explore the current and future growth effects of the regional population structure. Regional GDP growth in 227 regions within six countries in central Europe is explored as how they depend on the young and old dependency ratio. The young dependency ratio (YDR) is...

Die Studie untersucht im einzelnen die Probleme und Erfolgsaussichten der Umstrukturierung Mittel- und Osteuropas. In einem ersten Untersuchungsabschnitt werden in einer Länderquerschnittsanalyse für diese Länder die Gemeinsamkeiten der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung bis zum Umbruch im Jahre...