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

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 …

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 …

of transition during 1989-99. Then, the rhetoric of radical liberalism shielded certain interest groups, and due to the …

The aim of this paper is to explore the link between credit and output in the context of a developed transition economy …) the rapidly growing importance during transition of their financial sectors (the insurance, pension funds and real estate …

After nearly fifteen years of transition, the countries of Central Europe have entered the European Union on 1 May 2004 …'Union européenne<BR><P>Le 1er mai 2004, après presque quinze années de transition, les pays d’Europe centrale sont entrés dans l …

of a successful transition - the middle class. Its stagnation or adverse development causes that the social structure …

privatization in 1989. Therefore, decision makers in transition economies had to improvise and solve a dilemma: a fast, or slow …