employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …

occupation) and firms (size, industry, and productivity), suggesting ownership type is systematically selected along these …

result from effects on scale, productivity, and costs that are large but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small … scale-expansion effect that dominates the productivity-improvement effect, and the positive wage outcome from a productivity …

jobs. This paper first documents the magnitude and productivity of job and worker reallocation. It then investigates the … reallocation and its productivity in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. We find that market reform has resulted in a large … central planning, the job reallocation during the transition has contributed significantly to aggregate productivity growth …