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This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
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strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. …
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employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
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How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …
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jobs. This paper first documents the magnitude and productivity of job and worker reallocation. It then investigates the … reallocation and its productivity in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. We find that market reform has resulted in a large … central planning, the job reallocation during the transition has contributed significantly to aggregate productivity growth …
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), but suggests a strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. …
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How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …
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This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long … produces a productivity advantage of about 40 percent in 2004–2005. …
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This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the …
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