Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,160
Cover Image
Gross job flows in Russian industry before and after reforms : has destruction become more creative?
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2001
, but increased slightly during the transition, while job destruction rose markedly. Heterogeneity in firm employment change … during the socialist period, while they have made a strong positive contribution during the transition. Privatization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403410
Cover Image
The reallocation of workers and jobs in Russian industry : new evidence on measures and determinants
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412846
Cover Image
Shadow economy and entrepreneurial entry
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010
We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of the shadow economy on entrepreneurial entry, utilising 1998-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient suggests a positive linear link between the size of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008689039
Cover Image
The determinants of asset stripping : theory and evidence from the transition economies
Campos, Nauro (contributor);  … - 2005
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of … ability to influence law enforcement. Our econometric results, for about 950 firms in five transition economies, provide … support for this argument. -- asset stripping ; law enforcement ; corruption ; transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003299971
Cover Image
Employment protection, product market regulation and firm selection
Koeniger, Winfried (contributor); Prat, Julien (contributor) - 2006
This paper analyzes the effect of labor and product market regulation in a dynamic stochastic equilibrium with search frictions. Modeling multiple-worker firms allows us to distinguish between the exit-and-entry (extensive) margin, and the hiring-and-firing (intensive) margin. We characterize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278939
Cover Image
Former Communist party membership and present-day entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2019
former Communist party membership from self-selection. Using individual-level Life in Transition-III survey and instrumental … practices, business ethics, and the nature of doing business in transition economies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136956
Cover Image
So many rocket scientists, so few marketing clerks : estimating the effects of economic reform on occupational mobility in Estonia
Campos, Nauro (contributor);  … - 2008
; human capital ; transition economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793275
Cover Image
Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415087
Cover Image
Effects of labor reallocation on productivity and inequality : insights from studies on transition
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas; Švejnar, Jan - 2016
flows in the period of massive and rapid labor reallocation, i.e. the economic transition from a centrally planned to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543181
Cover Image
Equilibrium wage arrears : a theoretical and empirical analysis of institutional lock-in
Earle, John S.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2000
We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339102