Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity …

productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector …, but increased slightly during the transition, while job destruction rose markedly. Heterogeneity in firm employment change … also increased significantly. Intra- and inter-sectoral job reallocation had no effect on aggregate labor productivity …

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 …

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique data set of more … connection with other evidence we infer from this that Ukraine is only at the beginning of the restructuring process. The most … established for other transition economies as well. At the same time, we do not find differences in the employment growth of state …

the case of Ukraine where we view the sudden openness of the economy to trade as a quasi-natural experiment. We use … trade liberalization ; Ukraine …

We present new evidence on how employment growth varies across firm types (size, productivity, and wage) and over the … hirings from/to employment (poaching) and net hirings from nonemployment. High-productivity firms are the most growing firms …

We investigate whether workers reallocate up firm productivity and wage job ladders, and the cyclicality of this … process. We document that productivity is a better measure of the job ladder than the average wage, since high productivity … cycle differs between the firm wage and productivity ladders. In recessions, employment decreases more in low than in high …

market sorting, and aggregate shocks. In response to a positive productivity shock, incentives to sort increase … disproportionately. Firms respond by posting additional vacancies, and the strength of the response is increasing in firm productivity …

payment equilibrium." Our econometric analysis of linked employer-employee data for Russia supports the model's contention …