Comprehensive firm-level data for Polish manufacturing show that in state- owned firms the large drop in net employment since the start of the transition in 1990 has been driven by a jump in the job destruction rate; job creation, by contrast, is located disproportionately in the private sector....

Wide differences between effective or realised average tax rates and tax yields that would result if statutory tax rates were strictly applied indicate tax compliance and collection problems. Due to the greater politicisation of tax systems in transition economies (TEs), we would expect the...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the relations between industrial enterprises and the banks in Russia from the perspective of enterprises, using data from a World Bank survey of 439 large and medium industrial Russian enterprises conducted in mid-1994. The paper finds evidence of a...

This paper offers an analysis of payment arrears in the Russian enterprise sector, using both official aggregate data and data from a World Bank survey of 439 large and medium industrial Russian enterprises conducted in mid-1994. The focus is on trade credit arrears, tax arrears, and wage...

This paper considers the current performance and future prospects of newly-established private manufacturing firms in Russia, using information gathered in a mid-1994 World Bank survey of 439 Russian industrial firms, including forty-odd de novo private firms. The paper finds that in terms of...

Efficiency wage theories have been put forward as attractive ways of explaining different aspects of the labour market. To find direct evidence of efficiency wage payments has proven to be quite difficult. We model various vertical spillovers from wage determination in an upstream labour market...

We analyze the regional competitiveness of NUTS1 German and Belgian regions using firm level data. By doing so, we want to stress the importance of heterogeneity between regions within countries, as well as of firm heterogeneity, in the context of competitiveness analysis. We thus take a step...