Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108399 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market No. BWP - 2000/2
Publisher: 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Labour Research Department, Budapest
Abstract: 
Transition from socialist to capitalist economy led to enormous changes in earnings and employment. In our study a long-horizon descriptive analysis is presented about the major trends, including the last fifteen years of socialism. Education, gender, calendar time, age and vintage effects are separately analyzed. Aggregate (quasi-) panel analysis is used to assess the role of labor demand and labor supply, concluding that exogenous supply factors explained most of what happened before the transition, while the transition itself was dominated by large labor demand shocks. These demand shocks are in large part structural, as opposed to cyclical, and are highly correlated with vintage, gender and education. The main results are summarized in a list of stylized facts.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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