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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...
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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 … 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
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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
Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from … 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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233777
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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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Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period regardless of the exact location of the poverty line....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566831
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Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy
Siddique, Zahra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate about introducing similar quotas in private sector jobs. This paper uses an audit study to determine the extent of caste-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822297
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Konzentration statt Verzettelung: Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik am Scheideweg
Schneider, Hilmar; Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The German labor market reforms seem to be on the right track. However, they need to be adjusted especially on the organizational side to make them more effective. The labor market instruments can be concentrated on temporary company wage subsidies, training measures and financial incentives for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822422
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The German Labor Market after the Great Recession: Successful Reforms and Future Challenges
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – which was favorable for the German economy structure – but also in a series of labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240240
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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