This report notes that the labor market in the Ukraine is one of low productivity, and low wages. This study analyzes the Ukrainian situation, taking into account similar experiences of other countries...
The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of...
Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 transition economies, the authors test...
The paper tests three hypotheses about the causes of unemployment in the Central-East European transition economies and in a benchmark market economy (Western part of Germany). The first hypothesis (H1)...
This year, the workshop examined the conceptual foundation of the workshop sessions by discussing the definition of equity itself. What do we mean by equity, and how does equity differ from equality? Whereas...
Twelve years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, domestic and international analysts of the transition economies by and large agree that the transition from central planning to a market economy has been...
World Bank's Ukraine team on unchartered territories - learning from past mistakes: interview with Country Director Luca Barbone. Voices of the people: comments on the Bank's country assistance strategy...
Ten years in transition : recalling the events of a historic decade with World Bank Chief Economist Nicholas Stern; by Richard Hirschler. Czech President Vaclav Havel on the intellectual challenge of globalization...
The paper provides a systematic analysis of the employment and wage setting behavior of various types of firms during transition. Enterprise-level data from 1988-1993 was examined, mainly from the Czech...