ABSTRACT
Until recently, the overriding experience of liberal adjustment policies throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has been the rapid collapse of industrial capacity, the weakening of social infrastructure, the emergence of widespread long-term unemployment, and household economic restructuring. In some peripheral regions, historical patterns of uneven development have been compounded by the emergence of region-wide mass unemployment. Post-1989 labour market restructuring has thus been one primarily of economic and social adjustments to plant closure, job loss, and changes in the sources, amount and structure of household incomes.
