This paper studies a sample of economies in transition to verify the assertion that returns to schooling increase as an economy transitions to a market environment. This claim has been difficult to assess in the past as the empirical evidence so far has covered only a few countries over short...

Employment policy in the European Semester : an introduction -- Theorizing the influence of the European Semester : mechanisms, conditions and policy change -- Croatia : cherry-picking from the European Semester -- Hungary : a case of neglect? -- Slovakia : reinforcing existing trajectories --...