aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are … very low under socialism. After reforms, they rise dramatically, and productivity contributions greatly exceed those …

structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first …

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …

Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be …

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are … very low under socialism. After reforms, they rise dramatically, and productivity contributions greatly exceed those …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

productivity directly, by reallocating resources towards more productive uses, but also indirectly through the effects of increased …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …