4th IZA/Higher School of Economics Workshop: Thirty Years after the Fall of the Iron Curtain: The Contribution of Labor Market Adjustment to Transition and Convergence

The collapse of the centrally planned economies in Central and Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union and the profound reforms of the Chinese economy have changed the social, political and economic landscape of the world in a fundamental way. All of the former centrally planned economies embarked on a journey of transition and convergence towards developed market economies.

This workshop intends to stock of the transition and convergence processes that played out in a very heterogeneous fashion in labor markets across the transition region. How did labor market institutions, labor market policies and systemic reform in the labor market taking shape in the last thirty years contribute to transition and convergence processes?

This fourth IZA/Higher School of Economics workshop will bring together labor economists who work on labor market adjustment in the post-Soviet states that emerged from the break-up of the Soviet Union, post-transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as China.

While the main focus of the workshop relates to a long-term view of labor market adjustment since the onset of transition, there will be two sessions on the impact of COVID-19 on labor markets in emerging and post-transition economies.

For further information, see the workshop website.