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The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …

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Competition Enhancing Policies and Infrastructure: Evidence from Russia

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

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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Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

, but increased slightly during the transition, while job destruction rose markedly. Heterogeneity in firm employment change … during the socialist period, while they have made a strong positive contribution during the transition. Privatization and …

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Enterprise Finance and Investment in Listed Hungarian Firms

Perotti, Enrico C; Vesnaver, Luka - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

transition. These firms were selected for listing on the exchange and presumably had better access to external capital. In …

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity growth? This Paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual...

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East Germany: Transition With Unification - Experiments and Experiences

Strauch, Rolf; von Hagen, Jürgen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

East Germany remains unique among the transition economies. Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it became … well as local capacities. Third, the Kohl government's policy towards East German transition, driven by short …

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Growth in Transition: What we Know, What we Don't and What we Should

Campos, Nauro F; Coricelli, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This essay surveys macroeconomic issues that marked the transition from centrally planned to market economy in Central … and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries. We first establish a set of stylized facts of the transition so …) institutions collapsed, and (7) the transition costs. We then critically survey the theoretical literature on transition …

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Privatization, Competition and Reform Strategies: Theory and Evidence from Russian Enterprise Panel Data

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

A critical, but largely unexamined assumption in the debate over reform policy design, concerns the complementarity or substitutability of market competition and private ownership in increasing firm efficiency. We analyse a simple Cournot model that distinguishes two aspects of privatization...

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The Effect of Ownership and Competitive Pressure on Firm Performance in Transition Countries: Micro Evidence from Bulgaria, Romania and Poland

Angelucci, Manuela; Estrin, Saul; Konings, Jozef; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper uses a unique representative firm level data set to analyse the effect of domestic and international competitive pressure and ownership changes in three emerging economies, Bulgaria Poland and Romania. Our main findings can be summarized as follows: Domestic competitive pressure,...

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Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002

Dohmen, Thomas J; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schaffer, Mark E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labour market conditions affect the wages and the welfare of workers inside a firm. We provide evidence that large shocks to external...

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