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Belarusian Economic Growth Decomposition
Kruk, Dzmitry; Bornukova, Kateryna - Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center - 2013
Belarus experienced rapid economic growth in the 2000's, which abruptly came to halt after 2008. The authors found that the major source of growth was capital accumulation, while growth in total factor productivity (TFP) was modest. Moreover, government interventions and controls on the capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741255
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Knowledge based firms from Central and East European countries: A comparative overview of case studies
Woodward, Richard; Yörük, Deniz E.; Radosevic, Slavo - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216305
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Sectoral Restructuring and Labor Mobility: A Comparative Look at the Czech Republic
Sorm, Vit; Terrell, Katherine - 2000
Labor mobility is crucial for an efficient allocation of resources and the transition economies are often viewed as … that it occurred with lower incidence and duration of unemployment than in the other transition economies. The demographic … characteristics of different patterns of mobility are similar across these transition economies: we identify younger people in general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262336
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Knowledge based firms from Central and East European countries: A comparative overview of case studies
Woodward, Richard; Yörük, Deniz Eylem; Radosevic, Slavo - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430867
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A Comparative Look at Labour Mobility in the Czech Republic : Where Have All the Workers Gone?
Sorm, Vit; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
resources and the transition economies are often viewed as suffering from inadequate reallocation of labour. We find the Czech … who change jobs have changed sector of employment. Although flows out of employment are small relative to other transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789134
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Understanding Czech Long-Term Unemployment
Jurajda, Stepan; Münich, Daniel - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
One potential impact of the looming EU accession of Central European economies is unemployment hysteresis working through long-term unemployment (LTU). In this paper, we explore the mechanisms of LTU by providing a detailed description of the recent rise in Czech LTU following the recession of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005489901
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Restructuring and Measurement of Efficiency in Firms in Transition
Benacek, Vladimir; Shemetilo, Dmitri; Petrov, Alexei - EconWPA - 2001
look at changes in the behaviour of enterprises. In 1994, after the chaos during the culmination of transition (1991 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412948
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Sectoral Restructuring and Labor Mobility: A Comparative Look at the Czech Republic
Sorm, Vit; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Labor mobility is crucial for an efficient allocation of resources and the transition economies are often viewed as … that it occurred with lower incidence and duration of unemployment than in the other transition economies. The demographic … characteristics of different patterns of mobility are similar across these transition economies: we identify younger people in general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703146
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Enterprise Investment During the Transition: Evidence from Czech Panel Data
Lizal, Lubomir; Svejnar, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
We analyse investment behaviour of the population of medium and large industrial firms located in the Czech Republic in 1992–5. We examine the relevance of alternative models of investment and test if investment behaviour varies across ownership-legal form categories of firms. By using a large...
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The emergence of large shareholders in mass privatized firms : evidence from Poland and the Czech Republic
Grosfeld, Irena; Hoshi, Iraj - 2004
transition economies, Poland and the Czech Republic, we find that despite important differences in the design of the two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606874