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The current research has concentrated on the following questions: What are the trends in restructuring Suceava's economy and which regional development factors were the most important (exogenous, endogenous, structural, socio-political ones, etc.)? Which is the relationship between social...
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. This paper analyzes both gender and occupational wage gaps before and during the first years of the transition to a market …
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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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We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and...
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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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The first chapter of this dissertation considers the complexity of contracts to be determined bytransacting partners based on their exposure to the opportunistic behavior of theother. A transaction cost economics model generates the hypothesis that buyer andseller relationship-specific...
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The purpose of this article is to briefly present the actions taken in Romania's economic transition from a centralized … to a market economy and to explain why and where it went wrong. Wrong decisions taken in the transition process will be … completed. This is because, although a transition to last a short time was expected, domestic and international social, economic …
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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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the receiving and origin countries. The restructuring process that accompanied a painful economic transition created …
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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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