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 …

How do new and foreign firms achieve superior productivity? Do they conduct more and better R&D? Or do they distinguish … IT and less in R&D than initially state-owned firms. Productivity gains from R&D and non-technology investment are … investment. New firm productivity growth is a result of higher investment volume rather than investment efficiency. …

-level total factor productivity growth for Ukraine manufacturing and service sectors in 2000-2005. The estimation is performed for … suggests that significant share of productivity gains occur in the long term, when firms adjust to the international market … confirms that exporting to the more technologically advanced countries results in higher productivity gains due to the access …

The paper empirically assesses microeconomic exporting-productivity nexus using the data for Ukrainian manufacturing … firms for the years 2000-2005. The results of the estimation show that firms with higher total factor productivity (TFP …-entry productivity effect for the firms that enter export markets for the first time (in the t, t+1 and t+2 periods). At the industry …

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty inUkraine during transition … transition, including the relatively lowimportance of unemployment and the existence of poverty even among households …