wage premium has been driven mainly by institutional factors during the early period and by productivity and technological … productivity. …

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 …

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …

productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector … also increased significantly. Intra- and inter-sectoral job reallocation had no effect on aggregate labor productivity … the firms with the lowest productivity. …

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