Wage Determination Under Communism and In Transition: Evidence from Central Europe
dc.contributor.author | Basu, Swati | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Estrin, Saul | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Svejnar, Jan | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-08-01T16:31:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-08-01T16:31:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004-08-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | RePEc:wdi:papers:2004-717 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/40103 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Using large firm-level data sets from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, we show that the wage behavior of firms changed considerably as these economies launched their transitions to a market system. We find evidence of worker sharing in their enterprise rents and losses at the end of the communist period in some economies and within a year after the launching of the transition, we find rent sharing in all of them. Using the Czech and Slovak data we show that the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that existed under communism and survived allow for less worker rent-sharing than other firms. We also test for the presence of a wage curve and with the exception of Slovakia we do not find a significant association between local unemployment and wages. Finally, we do not find significant effects of firm ownership on wages. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 717 | en_US |
dc.title | Wage Determination Under Communism and In Transition: Evidence from Central Europe | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Economics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Business | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/40103/3/wp717.pdf | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | William Davidson Institute (WDI) - Working Papers |
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