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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth: lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268767
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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262073
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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development : Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2005
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271756
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Much ado about nothing? Do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment?
Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2003
productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265405
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Public support for innovation, intangible investment and productivity growth in the UK market sector
Haskel, Jonathan; Wallis, Gavin - 2010
data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for evidence … or defence R&D. Our findings tentatively suggest that for maximum market sector productivity impact government innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269519
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Human capital spillovers, productivity and regional convergence in Spain
Ramos, Raúl; Suriñach, Jordi; Artís, Manuel - 2009
productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying … of human capital on regional productivity and convergence, but reveals no evidence of any positive geographical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276317
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Regional unemployment and human capital in transition economies
Jurajda, Štepán; Terrell, Katherine - 2007
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274345
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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies
Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763690
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The Changing Demand for Skills : Evidence from the Transition
Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - 2004
Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261836
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What Makes Small Firms Grow? : Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004
a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania containing detailed information from the startup date through 2001. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262083