and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …

) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …

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 …

unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …

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 …