%0 Report
        %A Basu, Swati
%A Estrin, Saul
%A Svejnar, Jan
        %T Wage Determination under Communism and in Transition: Evidence from Central Europe
        %D 2004
        %8 2004 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 1276
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1276
        %X 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.
        %K wages
%K rent-sharing
%K transition economies