hypothesis for five transition countries in Eastern Europe using panel data on more than 8000 plants in the Czech Republic …, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. In a log-linear model, the Cobb-Douglas production function is estimated to examine …

Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, more reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but … later, and on average over the whole transition, this relationship is reversed. Though reallocation rates are larger in …

are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000 adults in six transition economies. Estimated selfemployment earnings premia … related to schooling, pre-transition family income, receipt of property in restitution, precommunist family business …

This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on … increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill?favoring shifts in … employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …

The transition process has had different distributional impacts across different interest groups and countries. These … have led to differences in the support for transition. In this paper, we study support attitudes for both the economic and … political transition using data from the New Barometer Surveys for 14 transition economies from 1991 to 2004. We document that …

The transition paths from plan to market have varied markedly across countries. Central and Eastern European and the … firms at an earlier stage of transition, underscoring the importance of reforms. The role of the state sector as an employer … during transition rises in countries where reforming institutions is particularly costly. …

respect to productivity in (former) transition economies, while other studies report price-productivity elasticity estimates …-parative price developments of transition economies in an international perspective. We argue that estimating simple price …-productivity-elasticity for CEEC econo-mies was not different from that of non-transition economies during the first 15 years of transition. …

Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the … transition period while the skill composition of employment did not. Our approach in analyzing the sources of cross …