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Firms and industries in evolutionary economics: Lessons from Marshall, Young, Steindl and Penrose

Bloch, Harry - 2007

Evolutionary economists have tended to assess firms and industries separately, neglecting the role of their interaction … in the process of economic growth and development. We trace the separation of firms and industries to Marshall, whose … industries. Penrose avoids the industry concept by focussing on heterogeneous firms, while Young and Steindl develop mundane …

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Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2001

This paper uses 1985-1999 manufacturing census data for old Russian enterprises to calculate the magnitude and productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector, but increased slightly during the transition, while job...

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Does Privatization Raise Productivity? Evidence from Comprehensive Panel Data on Manufacturing Firms in Hungary, Romania, Russia and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2004

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially stateowned manufacturing firms in four economies. Controlling for firm and industry-year fixed effects and employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we...

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Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2005

We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to workers' fears, our fixed effect and random trend estimates imply little effect of domestic privatization, except for a slight negative effect in Russia, and they provide some...

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The productivity effects of privatization in Ukraine : estimates from comprehensive manufacturing firm panel data, 1989 -2005

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2007

This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The longitudinal dimension of the data is used to measure and control for...

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The productivity effects of privatization : longitudinal estimates from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four economies. We exploit the key longitudinal feature of our data to measure and control for preprivatization...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003311836

Does privatization hurt workers? Lessons from comprehensive manufacturing firm panel data in Hungary, Romania, Russia and Ukraine

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor); … - 2005

We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to workers’ fears, our fixed effect and random trend estimates imply little effect of domestic privatization, except for a slight negative effect in Russia, and they provide some...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435299

Does privatization raise productivity? : Evidence from comprehensive panel data on manufacturing firms in Hungary, Romania, Russia and Ukraine

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor); … - 2004

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The speed and stability of price adjustment in Australian manufacturing

Bloch, Harry (contributor); Olive, Michael (contributor) - 2006

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Why is pollution from US manufacturing declining? : the roles of trade, regulation, productivity, and preferences

Shapiro, Joseph S.; Walker, Reed - 2015

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