How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … 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 …

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 …

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent … advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this negative spilloverʺ effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …

Germany. We examine their effect on today's productivity, wages, income, rents, education, and population density at the … with higher rents as well as higher productivity, wages, and education levels. We examine whether today's economic …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on … world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of productivity growth for developing countries …, followed by a brief discussion of the concept of productivity and how it is measured. We discuss the concept of "decent work …

The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general … to US levels, agricultural labor productivity increases by 4.3-7.6 percent, nonagricultural labor productivity decreases …

factor productivity, GDP volatility, negative returns on investment, and a labor force that is too reliant on government …