Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new … 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 …

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new … 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 …

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new … 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 …

economic transition using micro-data from the Czech Republic. There is strong evidence that Czech wage structures are moving …

Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition. We ask about differences in their growth … across two different transition economies: Estonia, which experienced rapid destruction of pre-existing firms, and the Czech …-ups and old firms and small differences in the extent of low-wage employment in start-ups across the two transition paths …

to the experience of other countries at a similar stage of transition. We show that informal employees earn significantly …

for Serbia drawn from eight annual labour force surveys, which cover both the early episode of sluggish transition and a …

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain how wages are being determined in China during the reform period. The paper … labor market institutions and wage setting, and by evaluating their potential implications for actual wage setting …

employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector …-reported compensation in the public sector. Using the conditions of labor market equilibrium, we develop an aggregate measure of bribery and …