small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). This is especially important in the transition economies. The creation of a new … SME sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) as a transition country may play an important role in the process of economic …

structures in transition. The mutual benefit of low real interest rates, to both equity and economic development is a major … European integration process allowed most of the transition economies to aim for the best of both worlds equity and economic …

We look at the differences in regional unemployment rates in six major transition countries and their persistence over …

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 …

This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition … the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem to be sectoral shifts in employment and increasing inter …

We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition …

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 …

transition from communist to market oriented economies. …

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 …