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 …

Only recently, 20 years after transition to a market system, has Russia regained a similar production level it had … achieved on the eve of transition in 1991. This may sound surprising, given its low productivity under central planning which … weakness of Russia. Given the very high 'cost of transition', the question is raised whether the socialist growth strategy (as …

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 …

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 …

In many transition countries, the collapse of communism ushered in language reforms to adapt to the newfound … empirical evidence documents positive labor market returns to English language skills in transition countries. However, Russian …