-random distribution of unobservable skills across the population of a transition country. At the beginning of the transition, people who …. This results in the differences in unobservable abilities and earnings capacity of people. We argue that cohort, a pre-transition … occupation, an urban place of birth, and nationality might serve as proxies for unobservable skills in the transition. The cohort …

communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to … returns to education obtained during communism vs. transition; no change in wage-experience profiles over time; and similar … the planners did; all the adjustment occurred in early transition and was driven by market forces rather than private …

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 …

in the West (labor supply movements, product demand shifts, technical change) or the transition-specific accounts …

the so-called “talent” occupations. Using data from a transition economy (Poland) we find that indeed talent occupations …

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 …

communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to … returns to education obtained during communism vs. transition; no change in wage-experience profiles over time; and similar … the planners did; all the adjustment occurred in early transition and was driven by market forces rather than private …

years of transition from a planned to a market economy. The results suggest that the communist institutions did succeed in …