In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of employment determination in four transition economies as they move from central planning to a market economy in the early 1990s. We use firm level panel data sets from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to estimate dynamic...

The authors present a comparative analysis of employment determination in four transition economies as they moved from central planning to a market economy in the early 1990s. They use firm-level panel data sets from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia to estimate dynamic...

We analyze the impact of differentiated incentives on performance. While the literature has studied workers with relatively homogeneous tasks, we study teams with heterogeneous tasks and differentiated outputs that cannot be perfectly distinguished – a situation common in manufacturing or...