Estonia as a lowcost medium-income transition economy. The data from the population of Estonian firms between 1995 and 2002 … firms. Our results imply that the logic of the outward investments from low-cost transition and developing economies differs …

, suggesting inertial programs from the pre-transition era. Retraining in new fields increases all types of worker mobility and has …

steadily increased from 5% in 1992 to nearly 55% in 1998. Unknown in CEEC's transition countries, barter is only one aspect of …

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 …

-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows …

diverged so much over the transition period while the skill composition of employment did not. Our approach in analyzing the …

transition from plan to market in Russia, champions number fewer than one-in-fifty, challengers may account for less than 10 …%, and firms unlikely to survive the transition process, the chaff, represent 80-85%. Utilizing unequal weights, that is … than estimates reported at the beginning of the Russian transition process that only one-in-ten firms would avoid …