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privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and …
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This paper uses 1985-1999 manufacturing census data for old Russian enterprises to calculate the magnitude and productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector, but increased slightly during the transition, while job...
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This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and …
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China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of …) stresses the role of labor deepening, including the reallocation from agriculture, while more recent analysis points to the … quantifying their contributions to growth. In this paper, we develop a three-sector dynamic model to quantify the sources of China …
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in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an … input index with annual industrial census data from 1985 to 2001, we find that Soviet Russia displayed low reallocation …
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We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find … that in China, enterprise growth and efficiency is associated with rapid increases in factor inputs, but not correlated … with ownership or institutional factors. However, in Russia, enterprise growth is not associated with increases in factor …
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a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …
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Why are socially beneficial reforms not implemented? One simple answer to this question (which has received little attention in the literature) is that this may be caused by generalized uncertainty about the effectiveness of reforms. If agents are unsure about whether a proposed reform will...
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Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...
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China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make … in striking the right balance in terms of speed and coordination of reforms. We argue that China's current stage of … development, along with its rising market orientation and increasing integration with the world economy, may make the incremental …
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