hypothesis for five transition countries in Eastern Europe using panel data on more than 8000 plants in the Czech Republic …

We investigate the impact of differences in privatisation method on national economic performance in transition … transition and recession was over. Our analysis suggests that an advantage of mass privatisation was that it led spontaneously to …

In the transition from central planning to a market economy in the 1990s, governments focused on privatizing or closing …

This paper uses firm-level survey data to study labor reallocation and firm growth in the transition countries over … comparable surveys of developed market economies. Throughout, the regional patterns suggest greater convergence in the transition … countries that joined the European Union in 2004 than in the other, lower-income transition economies. We also find evidence of …

Entrepreneurship is an important lever for spurring transition in the economies of the former Soviet Union and Central …

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes … using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who …

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 …

hiring and of quits and layoffs – and they contain a rich set of firm characteristics that may affect job and worker turnover … intensity, and labor productivity, but only weakly to job and worker turnover. Little evidence is found that firms? employment … adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …