In the first decade of postcommunist transition, multiple growth regressions showed that the more radical and …

of transition, many significant policy developments have already taken place over the past six years, developments of … interest to policymakers and economists alike. Conditions in these Countries in Transition (CITs) have presented a formidable …. Now, as CITs enter the seventh year of transition, perhaps lessons can be drawn from their experience which may be of …

; increasing wages above those guaranteed by productivity increases; an increasing budget deficit which was used primarily for …

Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficulties distinguishing ownership effects … from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. This paper estimates these ownership differentials using linked … employer-employee data (LEED) from Hungary containing 1.35mln worker-year observations for 21,238 firms from 1986 to 2003. We …