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Transition economies have inherited of a lot of outdated or blackwarded facilities in many industries from the … generally on the Hungarian economy.Les économies en transition ont hérité de la période socialiste un certain nombre d …
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Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes … using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who …
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aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster 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 …
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-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows …
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-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows …
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The impact of FDI on total factor productivity in Hungary during the 1990s' is assessed with a large enterprise panel. Foreign equity is associated with higher productivity levels and has a substantial, positive spillover effect on aggregate TFP growth. However, this benefit is significant only...
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This paper focuses on knowledge-based entrepreneurship, or new firm creation in industries which are considered to be science-based or to use research and development intensively, in the East Central European (ECE) context. On the basis of case studies of thirteen knowledge-based firms in six...
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We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially stateowned manufacturing firms in four economies. Controlling for firm and industry-year fixed effects and employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we...
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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
This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four economies. We exploit the key longitudinal feature of our data to measure and control for preprivatization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288008