Germany after German reunification. Descriptive analysis is involved to display problems of transition process and changes in …

Germany after German reunification. Descriptive analysis is involved to display problems of transition process and changes in …

explanations why unemployment is high during transition in countries of Central and Eastern Europe the role of unemployment and the … fiscal problems due to unemployment is discussed within a model of economies of transition. The model highlights the …

the relative importance and potential development of the different channels. …

structures and institutions. Across a range of development outcomes—in terms of the speed and success of reforms—transition is an … “unhappy process.” The “happiness gap,” i.e. the difference in average happiness levels between the populations of transition … and non-transition economies, is closing, but at a slower pace than the process of economic convergence. Economic growth …

would expect that their economic policy would be such as to stand in the way of their economic development. This fact is …

communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to … returns to education obtained during communism vs. transition; no change in wage-experience profiles over time; and similar … the planners did; all the adjustment occurred in early transition and was driven by market forces rather than private …