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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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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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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703404
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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762398
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FDI and Wages: Evidence from Firm-Level and Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary, 1986-2008
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos; Antal, Gábor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on pre-acquisition data and controlling for fixed … strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884343
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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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822646
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North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the "Natural Trading Partners" Hypothesis
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version … of the "natural trading partners" hypothesis seems to hold for Korea and Mexico though not necessarily for Poland. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703120
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The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime in the Process of Real and Nominal Convergence
D'Adamo, Gaetano; Rovelli, Riccardo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
the same increase in the dual productivity growth (that is, the difference in productivity growth between the traded and … expected as a consequence of productivity convergence on the basis of the B-S effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128045
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Horizontal Mismatch in the Labour Market of Graduates: The Role of Signalling
Domadenik, Polona; Farčnik, Daša; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
education for a post-transition economy (Slovenia). Second, we test the signal of HE institutions and above average study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990942
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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency … of atypically rapid growth of total factor productivity (TFP) relative to levels in OECD countries, and that the rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822655