Subject(s): Privatization -- Western countries -- Labour taxation -- Case for labour market institutions in transition countries, labour market flexibility, Trade-offs and complementaries, Implications for employment analysis and policy advice -- Labour market development in the 1990s An overview of the transition countries : Common features and different across transition countries -- Changing characteristics of employment: sectoral change, Privatization , Increasing flexibility forms of employment -- Labour market dynamics in the 1990s : Labour turnover in the 1990s, Employment stability, Jon security -- Impact of EPL on labour market outcomes Evidence from transition and western industrialized countries: CEE countries, EPL development and measuring EPL strictness, Bivariate associations -- Role of labour institutions, social dialogue and labour taxation: Labour market institutions in the 1990s: transition vs OECD countries, Preliminary evidence in transition countries -- Policy conclusion: Labour management for the transition countries