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After nearly fifteen years of transition, the countries of Central Europe have entered the European Union on 1 May 2004 …'Union européenne<BR><P>Le 1er mai 2004, après presque quinze années de transition, les pays d’Europe centrale sont entrés dans l …
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The paper provides an overview of the course of economic reform and the performance of the Russian economy since the early 1990s and an analysis of the structural reform challenges ahead. It assesses the contribution of institutional and structural reforms to economic performance over the...
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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 pre-privatization...
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all of the transition countries. The cost of trans- formation of the Czech banking was extremely high. The text is focused …
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This paper examines within-industry variation in labor productivity at the beginning of Russia's transition process in …
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hiring and of quits and layoffs – and they contain a rich set of firm characteristics that may affect job and worker turnover … intensity, and labor productivity, but only weakly to job and worker turnover. Little evidence is found that firms’ employment … adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …
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. Furthermore, unlike the early transition period, we can confirm that employment adjusts to positive sales growth, not just to …
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The behaviour of an oligopolistic industry in a transition economy is analysed, assuming that the firms are labour …
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hiring and of quits and layoffs – and they contain a rich set of firm characteristics that may affect job and worker turnover … intensity, and labour productivity, but only weakly to job and worker turnover. Little evidence is found that firms’ employment … adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504437
This Paper investigates whether the efficiency effect of product market dispersion is a function of the infrastructural and policy environment. We hypothesise that more developed transportation and communication infrastructure and lower government regulation may reduce transaction costs,...
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