-type industrialization. This decentralized industrialization is shown to be the ultimate driving force of the transition from plan to market …

structures in transition. We find especially government expenditures on subsidies to be negatively correlated with both … in the late 1990's and early 2000's the European integration process allowed several of the transition economies to aim …

. Energy intensity (defined as energy use per GDP) has decreased in the course of transition, but progress has been uneven and … most transition countries still use several times as much energy per unit of output as their Western peers. This paper …

This paper examines the different strategies adopted by individuals in transition economies to cope with labour market … restructuring. Using micro-data from seven countries at different stages of transition, we focus on “active” coping strategies, in … and is more significant in the advanced transition countries of central Europe, where entrepreneurs tend to be male …

socialist system. We also emphasise the diversity across the countries concerned. For the period of transition, itself …. The picture during transition, like that under socialism, is varied. Russia has experienced very sharp increases in … transition, a framework which would help interpretation of the evidence. …

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 …