countries, in particular fellow transition economies and UE members. The analysis consists of four parts. In the first part, to … growing transition economy while also displaying higher GDP growth rates compared to the UE-15 average. Part three shows the …

Contrary to expectations and announcements of policy makers in transition economies, privatization has taken longer … privatization and thus transition from a centrally planned to a market economy. Part I describes the command economy legacy … transition economies must overcome while initiating the structural transformation required to introduce a market economy. Part II …

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 …

The paper shows that a transition from a planned to a market economy implies an important change of the structure of …. The time tillthe economy in transition reaches an ``old" market economy (asymptotically or totally) is estimated by … different methods. Finally other problems, mostly non--economic ones, which are connected with the transition process are …

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 …

country. In many transition economies TFP is seen to have been negative the last decade of the plan economy and starts … increasing and become positive after a (quite a) few years of transition. Many authors conclude that this is a gain in efficiency …

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 …