consistent with the view that economies (firms) need to be more technologically advanced and open to competition in order to be … consistent with the view that economies (firms) need to be more technologically advanced and open to competition in order to be …

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 …

from Bulgaria, Russia, Kazakhstan and Serbia in 2003, we show that the return to education is heterogeneous across the …

In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria …

This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …

From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth … or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to produce higher productivity growth? Does such … and used these inputs to estimate the short-run and long-run relationship between labor market flows, labor productivity …