<P>Contributors </P><P>List of Figures </P><P>List of Maps </P><P>List of Tables</P><P>Introductory Remarks</P><P>Acknowledgements </P><P>CHAPTER 1. INSTITUTIONAL CONDITIONS FOR THE FUNCTIONING OF THE POLISH AND UKRAINIAN ECONOMIES (Andrzej NOWOSAD, Umit TURANLI, Rafał WISŁA) </P><P>1.1. Introduction </P><P>1.2. Poland and Ukraine yesterday and today </P><P>1.3. The subject of this research and its specificity: Poland -- Ukraine </P><P>1.4. Powerful institutions: oligarchy and network. </P><P>1.5. Summary </P><P>CHAPTER 2. OWNERSHIP TRANSFORMATIONS IN POLAND AND UKRAINE (Svitlana CHUGAIEVSKA, Rafał WISŁA, Andrzej NOWOSAD) </P><P>2.1. Introduction </P><P>2.2 Privatization </P><P>2.2.1. Privatization in Poland </P><P>2.2.2. Privatization in Ukraine </P><P>2.3. The capital market -- a mechanism to support ownership transformation </P><P>2.3.1. The Polish capital market </P><P>2.3.2. The Ukrainian capital market </P><P>2.4. Summary </P><P>CHAPTER 3. STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE POLISH AND UKRAINIAN ECONOMIES AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF OTHER CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES (Rafał WISŁA, Svitlana CHUGAIEVSKA, Andrzej NOWOSAD, Umit TURANLI)</P><P>3.1. Introduction </P><P>3.2. Share of the industrial sector in GDP </P><P>3.3. GDP share of the agricultural sector </P><P>3.3.1. Total investment expenditure </P><P>3.3.2. R&D expenditure </P><P>3.3.3. National defense spending </P><P>3.4. Summary </P><P>CHAPTER 4. THE DEMOGRAPHIC POTENTIAL OF POLISH VOIVODESHIPS AND UKRAINIAN OBLASTS (Nataliia CHUGAIEVSKA, Oleksii KELEBAJ, Tomasz TOKARSKI) </P><P>4.1. Introduction </P><P>4.2. Administrative divisions of Poland and Ukraine </P><P>4.3. The demographic potential of the Polish voivodeships </P><P>4.4. Demographic potential of the Ukrainian oblasts </P><P>4.5. Summary </P><P>CHAPTER 5 -- THE ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF POLISH VOIVODESHIPS AND UKRAINIAN OBLASTS (Nataliia CHUGAIEVSKA, Oleksii KELEBAJ, Tomasz TOKARSKI) </P><P>5.1. Introduction </P><P>5.2. Economic potential of Polish voivodeships </P><P>5.3. Economic potential of Ukrainian oblasts </P><P>5.4. Summary </P><P>CHAPTER 6. PRODUCT MARKET STRUCTURES (Katarzyna FILIPOWICZ, Tomasz TOKARSKI, Titus FERENC) </P><P>6.1. Introduction </P><P>6.2. Sector structure of the product market in Poland </P><P>6.2.1. Added value in agriculture </P><P>6.2.2. Added value in industry </P><P>6.2.3. Value added in construction </P><P>6.2.4. Added value in services </P><P>6.3. Sector structure of the product market in Ukraine </P><P>6.3.1. Added value in agriculture </P><P>6.3.2. Added value in industry </P><P>6.3.3. Added value in construction </P><P>6.3.4. Added value in services </P><P>6.4. Summary </P><P>CHAPTER 7. DETERMINANTS OF THE SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATION OF LABOR MARKETS IN POLAND AND UKRAINE (Paweł DYKAS, Tomasz MISIAK, Tomasz TOKARSKI) </P><P>7.1. Introduction </P><P>7.2. The labor market in Poland and Ukraine in the XXI century </P><P>7.3. Differentiation in labor productivity, wages and unemployment rates </P><P>7.3.1. Differentiation in labor productivity, wages and unemployment rates in Poland </P><P>7.3.2. Differentiation in labor productivity, wages and unemployment rates in Ukraine </P><P>7.4. Determinants of the increase in unemployment rates and gross real wages -- a theoretical approach and empirical verification </P><P>7.5. Summary </P><P>CHAPTER 8. SIMULATIONS OF VOIVODESHIP AND OBLAST DEVELOPMENT TRAJECTORIES. AN ANALYSIS BASED ON THE GRAVITY GROWTH MODEL (Svitlana CHUGAIEVSKA, Katarzyna FILIPOWICZ, Tomasz TOKARSKI, Rafał WISŁA) </P><P>8.1. Introduction </P><P>8.2. Gravitational growth model </P><P>8.3. The diversity of the capital-labor ratio, gravitational effects and investment rates </P><P>8.3.1. Poland </P><P>8.3.2. Ukraine </P><P>8.4. Calibration of model parameters </P><P>8.5. Simulation of labor efficiency trajectories </P><P>8.5.1. Poland </P><P>8.5.2. Ukraine </P><P>8.6. Annex </P><P>CHAPTER 9. THE SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATION OF MIGRATION IN POLAND AND UKRAINE (Nataliia CHUGAIEVSKA, Daniela SZCZEPANIAK) </P><P>9.1. Introduction </P><P>9.2. Spatial diversity of migration inflows and outflows rates and their determinants in Poland 201</P><P>9.2.1. Inflow rates </P><P>9.2.2. Drainage rates </P><P>9.2.3. Net inflow rates </P><P>9.2.4. Relative wages </P><P>9.2.5. Relative unemployment rates </P><P>9.3. A spatial differentiation of migration inflow and outflow rates and their determinants in Ukraine</P><P>9.3.1. Inflow rates </P><P>9.3.2. Outflow rates </P><P>9.3.3. Net inflow rates </P><P>9.3.4. Relative wages </P><P>9.3.5. Relative unemployment rates </P><P>9.4. A statistical analysis of the impact of relative wages and relative unemployment rates on migration flows </P><P>9.5. Summary </P><P>CHAPTER 10. -- SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATION OF THE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF POLISH VOIVODESHIPS AND UKRAINIAN OBLASTS (Monika BOLIŃSKA, Olesia CHORNENKA) </P><P>10.1. Introduction </P><P>10.2. Taxonomic methods employed </P><P>10.3. Spatial differentiation of taxonomic indicators of economic development of voivodeships </P><P>10.4. Spatial differentiation of taxonomic indicators of economic development of oblasts </P><P>10.5. Spatial differentiation of taxonomic indicators of economic development of Polish voivodeships and Ukrainian oblasts </P><P>10.6. Summary </P><P>A FEW WORDS TO FINISH (Tomasz TOKARSKI, Andrzej NOWOSAD, Rafał WISŁA) </P><P>Bibliography </P>

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