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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment … transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233777
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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. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm 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/10005822646
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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies
Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763690
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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566810
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving … heterogeneity during this transition period, with a corresponding rise in excess job reallocation. Unlike data for Soviet Russia in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762442
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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703823
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The Changing Demand for Skills: Evidence from the Transition
Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762414
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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the …This study provides the first set of estimates of the returns to schooling over an extended period in Russia and … Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703252
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition
Brown, David J.; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from … Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763506
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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an … paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports … input index with annual industrial census data from 1985 to 2001, we find that Soviet Russia displayed low reallocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762003