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Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism

Historically, enterprises were an important delivery vehicle for the administration and financing of many programmes of social protection in the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In most cases this was through systems mandated by the state. When the Central and East European countries began their reforms, many expected enterprises quickly to eliminate the benefits they had provided to workers once freed from the encumbrance of state control.
This volume is the first to investigate the size of these benefits and the forces producing changes in them. Each chapter covers a specific country, exploring the scope, scale and change of benefits in the respective countries, and investigates their determinants. Surprisingly, they find only modest declines and even some increases in aggregate benefits, rather than rapid change. Change is more visible in the details. This volume examines new social functions, like early retirement, in both established and newly-privatized enterprises.

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Raine, M, A Wörgötter and B Friedman (eds) (1997), ‘Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism‘, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/enterprise-and-social-benefits-after-communism

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Rein, M, A Wörgötter and B Friedman, ‘Introduction: Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism‘, in Raine, M, A Wörgötter and B Friedman (eds), Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/enterprise-and-social-benefits-after-communism

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Schaffer, M, I Singh and S Estrin, ‘The provision of social benefits in state-owned, privatized, and private firms in Poland‘, in Raine, M, A Wörgötter and B Friedman (eds), Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/enterprise-and-social-benefits-after-communism

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Earle, J, ‘Do East European enterprises provide social protection? Employee benefits and labour market behaviour in the East European trans‘, in Raine, M, A Wörgötter and B Friedman (eds), Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/enterprise-and-social-benefits-after-communism

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Schneider, O, J Svejnar and R Filer, ‘Wage and non-wage labour costs in the Czech Republic - the impact of fringe benefits‘, in Raine, M, A Wörgötter and B Friedman (eds), Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/enterprise-and-social-benefits-after-communism

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Jackman, R and S Commander, ‘Firms and government in the provision of benefits in Russia‘, in Raine, M, A Wörgötter and B Friedman (eds), Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/enterprise-and-social-benefits-after-communism

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Kohli, M, ‘What comes after enterprise-centred social protection? The case of East Germany‘, in Raine, M, A Wörgötter and B Friedman (eds), Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/enterprise-and-social-benefits-after-communism

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Rein, M and B Friedman, ‘Enterprise social benefits and the economic transition in Hungary‘, in Raine, M, A Wörgötter and B Friedman (eds), Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/enterprise-and-social-benefits-after-communism

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Lakatos, J and G Fajth, ‘Fringe benefits in transition in Hungary‘, in Raine, M, A Wörgötter and B Friedman (eds), Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/enterprise-and-social-benefits-after-communism

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Letonja, M and S Gaves, ‘Social security in companies. The case of the Republic of Slovenia‘, in Raine, M, A Wörgötter and B Friedman (eds), Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/enterprise-and-social-benefits-after-communism

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Leka, E, R Luniku and E Brahja, ‘Social protection in enterprises. The case-study of Albania‘, in Raine, M, A Wörgötter and B Friedman (eds), Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/enterprise-and-social-benefits-after-communism

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Wörgötter, A and J Planovsky, ‘Social protection in the enterprise. The case of Slovakia‘, in Raine, M, A Wörgötter and B Friedman (eds), Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/enterprise-and-social-benefits-after-communism

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Wörgötter, A and I Tratch, ‘The enterprise social wage in ethnic transitional economy of Ukraine‘, in Raine, M, A Wörgötter and B Friedman (eds), Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/enterprise-and-social-benefits-after-communism

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Hu, Z, ‘Social protection and enterprise reform. The case of China‘, in Raine, M, A Wörgötter and B Friedman (eds), Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/enterprise-and-social-benefits-after-communism