Employment and wage behaviour of industrial enterprises in transition economies: The cases of Poland and Czechoslovakia

Economics of Transition

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 271-287

  Basu, Swati ^a   Estrin, Saul ^b   Svejnar, Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Employment; Transition; Wages

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC REFORM; EMPLOYMENT CHANGE; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY; WAGE DETERMINANTS;

CZECH REPUBLIC; POLAND;

EID: 0031428141     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.1997.tb00017.x     Document Type: Article

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