We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 toextend the analysis of internal labor markets to economies in transition. Our focus is on the effect of the financial crisis in 1998 and its aftermath on wages and the welfare of workers in the firm, providing...

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique data set of more than 2200 Ukrainian firms operating in both the manufacturing and the non-manufacturing sector for the years 1998-2000. There are several important findings in the paper. Job...

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a data set of more than 2200 Ukrainian firms operating in manufacturing and non-manufacturing for the years 1998-2000. Job destruction dominates job creation in both 1999 and 2000. Another clear-cut result...

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a dataset of more than 2200 Ukrainian firms operating in manufacturing and non-manufacturing for the years 1998–2000. Job destruction dominates job creation in both 1999 and 2000. Another clear-cut result...

This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the performance of the Polish state-owned enterprise sector in 1990, with particular attention to wages, output, profitability, and the contribution of enterprise taxation to the state budget. A new piece of empirical evidence presented in the paper...

In this paper we develop a new model of growth accounting and use it to analyse the long-term growth of the US and the USSR. The technique is designed to capture the indirect or "feedback" contributions of technological change and labour input growth. These indirect contributions arise from the...

This paper analyses the adjustments of state-owned enterprises in Russia to the economic reforms started in early 1992, drawing on evidence from enterprise visits, larger enterprise surveys, and aggregate data on the enterprise sector, and making direct comparisons to comparable experiences in...

The paper examines Hungary''s experience with banking and bankruptcy reform in the period 1992-94. The first part of the paper uses enterprise-level data to show that in 1992, the same year in which the amount of classified loans in the state-owned commercial banks grew enormously, the...

This paper reports the main findings from a survey of some 200 Polish firms carried out at the end of 1993. The central focus is on the relationship between different emerging forms of ownership and the extent and nature of enterprise level adjustments taking place. Four broad categories of...

This paper provides new evidence on progress in transition and the "readiness" of enterprises for accession for the EU using a detailed survey administered to approximately 200 manufacturing firms in each of Poland, Romania, and Spain. A major innovation is the use of a market economy and member...