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Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of interfirm employment reallocation to 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071141
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Informal Employment Relationships and Labor Market Segmentation in Transition Economies: Evidence from Ukraine
Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
Research on informal employment in transition countries has been very limited because of alack of appropriate data. A new rich panel data set from Ukraine, the Ukrainian LongitudinalMonitoring Survey (ULMS), enables us to provide some empirical evidence on informalemployment in Ukraine and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071143
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Why IT Matters: An Empirical Study of E-Business Usage, Innovation, and Firm Performance
Köllinger, Philipp - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
The article argues that IT continues to have strategic relevance for companies because it en-ables innovation. A … conceptual link between the adoption of IT and innovation is established. This conceptual link allows a market-based, economic … explanation for variations in IT payoffs among firms: The successful adoption of new IT leads to innovation. Depending on the be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068778
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Innovation, Adoption, Ownership, and Productivity: Evidence from Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Vakhitova, Hanna; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
How do new and foreign firms achieve superior productivity? Do they conduct more and better R&D? Or do they distinguish themselves through computerization and organizational capital? We investigate the determinants of and returns to several types of investment, using a panel of over 40,000...
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