hypothesis for five transition countries in Eastern Europe using panel data on more than 8000 plants in the Czech Republic …

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes … using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who …

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

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

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but … later, and on average over the whole transition, this relationship is reversed. Though reallocation rates are larger in …

-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows … gains from this sort of initial restructuring helped many former state enterprises stay on the market but they did not …