published in: Economics of Transition, 2008, 16 (2), 199-221.
Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill
content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition
has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment
disproportionately. Moreover, job creation in new firms tends to be biased against workers
with low educational attainments and skills. The skill content of blue collar work has also
shifted upwards. Although there is variation across the sampled countries, these appear to be
common features. They will have major longer run implications for the level and structure of
employment and for inequality through the distribution of earnings.
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