We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to … aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but …

We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to … aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but …

and employment of welfare recipients in Maryland and Missouri, 1991-2004. We find that there has been only modest change … in the observable characteristics of those entering, remaining on or leaving welfare, but the importance of employment … has grown for each of these groups. We also examine the dynamics of employment and welfare recidivism, comparing cohorts …

market regulation are less successful than other employment regimes and hard to reforms. This has been true about a decade … last years. The paper summarizes major reform dynamics in Bismarckian welfare states which had adopted a strategy of labor … costs, this triggered a sequence of more employment-oriented and more fundamental reforms that eventually helped overcome a …

work habits. We develop a model along these lines, which allows us to bridge the gap between high macroeconomic employment … the effectiveness of three employment policies in this context: (i) a weakening of workers' position in wage negotiations …) training subsidies. We show that the employment effects of these policies depend crucially on whether low-productivity traps …

The design of the employment protection legislation (EPL) is of a particular acuity in the European debate on the … contours of the EPL reform. In this article we used an equilibrium unemployment model to investigate the virtue of an EPL … reform whose modality is a lessening in the red tape and legal costs associated with layoffs and the introduction of an U …

the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 … we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and NATO clearly matter for institutional development. In addition …

the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 … we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and NATO clearly matter for institutional development. In addition …