The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …-supporting institutions. But many of these developments have now taken place, yet entrepreneurial activity still remains low in many places …. To analyse this longer term issue, we highlight the necessarily slow pace of development of new informal institutions and …

documents the evolution of labor market institutions and policies in the transition region. The data show a clear trend towards …This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and … test several predictions concerning the role of institutions and polices in explaining labor market outcomes. The results …

the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …

Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region … definition used. We then discuss studies that attempt to test for labor market segmentation in transition economies along the … before we can make definitive statements about whether labor markets are integrated or segmented in transition economies …

conditional wage distribution in four transition countries. We correct for sample selection bias using a procedure suggested by …

This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of … market institutions, which are among candidate explanations for the very diverse trajectories of labor markets in the region …. We consider recent contributions that attempt to assess the effect of labor market institutions on labor market …

This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed … cover thousands of firms from virtually all transition countries over a long time period (1996-99 through 2002-05), as well … convergence of transition countries with developed market economies in a number of dimensions. The pattern of growth at the …

This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor … market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al …. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data on institutions, which cover employment protection legislation (EPL …

migrants from transition economies. We contribute to the literature by showing that in addition to increasing household income …