The 1990s have witnessed several financial crises, of which the East Asia and Mexico
tequila crises are perhaps the most well known. What impact have these crises had on labor …

Market transitions are thought to inevitably produce spiraling inequality on the road to
economic growth. This review provides an overview of research evaluating inequality in …

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I present data and assess the first twelve years of the transition from plan to market.
Transformations have taken place, but the income gap between the transition and advanced …

We propose a simple methodology for decomposing differences in the first moment into
characteristics and coefficients effects. This methodology provides a way to apply the Blinder …

Oaxaca and Ransom (1999) show that a detailed decomposition of the coefficients effect is
destined to suffer from an identification problem since the detailed coefficients effect …

The overriding importance of political constraints in the transition process has led to
developments of the theory of the political economy of reform. What are the main insights …

Despite dramatic increases in poverty, unemployment, and social inequalities, the Central
and Eastern European transitions from communism to market democracy in the 1990s have …

The transition process differed in the countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and those
of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in terms of reallocation of labor real wage …

In this chapter, I survey principal econometric studies of several important labor market
issues in Central and East European countries as they launched the transition from central …