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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
Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262315
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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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Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415087
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The Determinants of Innovation and Productivity of a Nation
Arulrajah, Anthonypillai - 2016
This paper synthesizes five determinants of innovation and productivity of a nation. They are namely: (1) human resources and their characteristics, (2) natural and physical resources and their characteristics, (3) systems and strategies and their characteristics, (4) interactions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005834
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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Chinese provinces: a panel data analysis
Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - 2006
We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic variances has been used for the estimation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267745
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And Yet they Co-Move! Public Capital and Productivity in OECD: A Panel Cointegration Analysis with Cross-Section Dependence
Bottaso, Anna; Castagnetti, Carolina; Conti, Maurizio - 2011
In this paper we add to the debate on the public capital - productivity link by exploiting very recent developments in the panel time series literature that take into account cross sectional correlation in non-stationary panels. In particular we evaluate the productive effect of public capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343855
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The Effects of Public Capital on the Productivity of the Italian Regions
Marrocu, Emanuela - 2011
This article investigates the role played by public capital in increasing the productivity levels in Italy. For construction of the regional series for the public capital stock over the period 1996 to 2003, the study benefits from the use of the rich dataset on public expenditure, recently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131537
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The Impact of Public Infrastructure on Productivity : New Evidence for Australia
Elnasri, Amani - 2014
This paper presents new evidence on the impact of public infrastructure on the Australian economy. The contribution of …. Second, it employs a new data set on public infrastructure. Third, the paper applies detailed econometric investigations in … infrastructure spillovers to productivity and, consequently, results in incredibly high estimates of infrastructure elasticity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054535
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Vietnam's Low National Competitiveness : Causes, Implications and Suggestions for Improvement
Phuong, Le Quoc - 2018
to a transition toward stage 2 (efficiency-driven), which includes Brunei and the Philippines. The country has lagged … behind Indonesia and Thailand (in stage 2), Malaysia (in transition to stage 3) and Singapore (in stage 3, innovation … business environment, low R&D expenditure, low-quality higher education and under-developed infrastructure. The research also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918694
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Sectoral productivity growth, COVID-19 shocks, and infrastructure
Ahumada, Hildegart A.; Cavallo, Eduardo A.; … - 2021
compensatory effects of improving productivity in infrastructure-related sectors. We employ the KLEMS annual dataset for a group of … shocks in the sectors most affected by COVID 19, we find that large productivity improvements in infrastructure - equivalent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599737