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 entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are …

This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the …

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe …

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 entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are …

This paper investigates the impact of ownership structure on the productivity performance of Russian industrial …

), but suggests a strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. …

incumbents, and how are their relative productivity dynamics affected by financial constraints and the business environment? This …, Russia, and Ukraine) to measure new firm entry and the productivity dynamics of entrants relative to incumbents in the same … industries. We contrast hypotheses based on "leapfrogging," in which entrants embody superior productivity, with an …