...Sabien Dobbelaere Using a unique three‐digit firm‐level data set of all medium‐ and large‐sized manufacturing enterprises in Bulgaria covering the years 1997/1998, and investigation is conducted into how wage determination is related to ownership status. Building on a slightly modified version...

...Lisa Giddings Relies on cross‐sectional survey data from 1986 and 1993 to explain an increase in the ethnic Turk‐ethnic Bulgarian earnings differential in Bulgaria in the country’s early transition. Empirical evidence indicates that the ethnic Turks closed both the gap in the number of years...

... job. The substantial underdevelopment of internal labour markets for managers in Bulgaria is further documented in Table II , which shows that nearly one‐half of CEOs in our full sample were recruited from outside and that 16 per cent of those outside recruits were not from managerial positions...