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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 growth? This paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763251
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The wage effects of schooling under socialism and in transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950 - 2000
Andren, Daniela; Earle, John S.; Sapatoru, Dana - 2004
in the West (labor supply movements, product demand shifts, technical change) or the transition-specific accounts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287993
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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 … observed in market economies. Early in transition, more reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but … later, and on average over the whole transition, this relationship is reversed. Though reallocation rates are larger in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288001
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The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants
Earle, John S.; Brown, J. David - 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/10011763246
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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004
How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763262
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Wages, layoffs, and privatization: Evidence from Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Vakhitov, Vladimir - 2006
This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a national probability sample of Ukrainian households. Detailed worker characteristics are used to control for compositional differences and to assess types of observable 'winners' and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287960
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Job reallocation and productivity growth in the Ukrainian transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004
heterogeneity during this transition period, with a corresponding rise in excess job reallocation. Unlike data for Soviet Russia in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288009
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Helping hand or grabbing hand? State bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - 2008
Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to implement policies effectively and provide a supportive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288041
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Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth : Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis
Brown, J. David - 2015
aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, more reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but … later, and on average over the whole transition, this relationship is reversed. Though reallocation rates are larger in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012707455
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Performance standards and employee effort: Evidence from teacher absences
Gershenson, Seth - 2015
The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) increased accountability pressure in U.S. public schools by threatening to impose sanctions on Title 1 schools that failed to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) in consecutive years. Difference-in-difference estimates of the effect of failing AYP in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418257