In this paper we investigate the impact transition had on the total factor productivity in Croatia. The analyzed data … contribution of TFP to GDP growth changed with the beginning of transition. In addition, we conduct structural break analysis …, taking into an account, not only transition process but the pretransition period as well. Results suggest that transition had …

policies for MENA and CESEE (by Vladimir Gligorov; pp. 10-12) Keywords transition, economic systems, integration Countries …

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 …

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 …

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 …

branches. The results suggest that despite more than one decade of transition, serious adjustment problems exist, including …

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 …