This volume is primarily concerned with the first key component of transition: restructuring--the changing behavior of firms and their complex interaction with the labor market, most particularly with unemployment. Chapter 1 gives an overview of firm behavior, restructuring, and the labor market in the transition. Chapter 2 focuses on the effect of output, ownership, and legal form on employment and wages in Central European firms. Chapter 3 explores employment and wage setting in three stages of Hungary's labor market transition. Chapter 4 considers enterprises in the Polish transition. Chapter 5 explains labor market flows in the midst of structural change. Chapter 6 explores the role of unemployment and restructuring in the transition, and chapter 7 presents a numerical model of transition. Emphasis is placed on the Czech and Slovak Republics, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, and Russia.
- ISBN10 6610003890
- ISBN13 9786610003891
- Publish Date 31 July 1998 (first published 30 May 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 20 March 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint World Bank Group
- Format eBook
- Language English