In the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe life satisfaction has followed the V-shaped pattern of … asymmetric response of life satisfaction to decreases in GDP in transition countries and increases in GDP in non-transition …

transition process in the first decade after reunification …

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 …

We quantify the degree of persistence in unemployment rates of transition countries using a variety of methods …

We extend the scarce evidence on labor supply in post-transition countries by estimating the wage elasticity of labor …

new process of transition and real convergence to the EU. Using a product-level trade flows database and employing linear …

The transition from plan to market provides a rare opportunity for insight into the endogenous development of economic … were disrupted during the transition period, leading to an increase in the transaction costs for firms. Blanchard and … transition. Though this argument is correct, we believe that this and similar works stop short of a fuller characterisation of …

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