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Economic reforms and productivity-enhancing reallocation in the post-Soviet transition
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001944050
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How transition paths differ : enterprise performance in Russia and China
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2005
We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find … with ownership or institutional factors. However, in Russia, enterprise growth is not associated with increases in factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002603928
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Agriculture: transition buffer or black hole? : a three-state model of employment dynamics
Voicu, Alexandru - 2002
We analyze the effect of land reform legislation on labor market dynamics in the Romanian economy. We show that the agricultural sector, a source of precarious employment, has become an absorbing state for certain categories of workers who lost their jobs in the nonagricultural sector. A random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415572
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Property rights and gender bias : evidence from land reform in West Bengal
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2016
While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475191
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Job reallocation and productivity growth in the Ukrainian transition
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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/10002456178
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Employment and wage effects of privatization : evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor);  … - 2008
but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment … ; employment ; wages ; foreign ownership ; Hungary ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine … transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755531
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How property shapes distributional preferences
Fabbri, Marco; Bigoni, Maria - 2021
We study how distributional preferences are affected by a major property rights reform that transformed informal use-rights over land traditionally characterizing rural Beninese villages in a system akin to private ownership. The design combines the randomized control-trial implementation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648526
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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth : lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2008
; Hungary ; Lithuania ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755335
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Returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine : a semiparametric approach to cross-country comparative analysis
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002429387
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Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 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/10011415087