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Industrial decline and labor reallocation in a transforming economy: Romania in early transition
Earle, John S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-18
employment in Romania from 1993 to 1995. The data show not only a large drop in aggregate industry employment, but also a decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333102
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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
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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001
productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262532
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Employment and wage effects of privatization: evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2008
but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268760
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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
We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268767
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Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2005
large, positive, but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of both types in Russia and Ukraine. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494669
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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - 2006
Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494672
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Does privatization raise productivity? Evidence from comprehensive panel data on manufacturing firms in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - 2004
employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we estimate that majority privatization raises MFP about 28% in Romania, 22 …. The positive effects emerge within a year in Hungary, Romania, and Ukraine and continue to grow thereafter, but are still …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287971
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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
We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3 …
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
We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of interfirm employment reallocation to 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288001