Labor productivity levels in Bulgaria lag well behind that in the EU, weighing on the convergence process. Stronger … productivity growth would allow Bulgaria to close the income gap with the EU average more quickly and to alleviate the structural … productivity suggest that for Bulgaria closing the gap with EU standards in the areas of institutional and infrastructure quality …

in Poland 1995-2000, this paper extends the study to eight transition economies: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary …

Using firm-level data from Bulgaria and Romania, this paper addresses a lacuna in the transition literature, namely … net job creation at the firm level was affected by privatization in Bulgaria, privatization in Romania did not have any … effect on firm-level employment growth. Further, Olley-Pakes (1996) decomposition indicates that in Bulgaria, over time …