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How long does it take to become an entrepreneurial society: The case of german convergence in self-employment
Schindele, Yvonne - 2010
data from 1992 to 2005 on 97 German regions to analyze recent convergence in self-employment rates. An astonishing catching … regions have achieved convergence with West German self-employment rates and some have not. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267109
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Lessons from the transition economies: Putting the success stories of the postcommunist world into a broader perspective
Popov, Vladimir - 2009
Why many transition economies succeeded by pursuing policies that are so different from the radical economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273484
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Economic convergence and rent-seeking in Iran
Dreger, Christian; Rahmani, Teymur; Eckey, Hans-Friedrich - 2007
The neoclassical growth model predicts convergence of productivity or per capita output levels across regions. If participation in the labor force is constant, convergence of per capita income is implied. We investigate this hypothesis for the Iranian economy using data on demand deposits as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264981
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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. - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262559
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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. - 2002
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763251
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Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Sachsen-Anhalts seit 1990
Holtemöller, Oliver; Lindner, Axel - 2018
transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy. In the early 1990s, the economy of Saxony-Anhalt caught up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821514
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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. - 2002
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262315
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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth: Lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2008
We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of interfirm 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, more reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288001
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Avoiding a trap and embracing the megatrends: Proposals for a new growth model in EU-CEE
Grieveson, Richard; Bykova, Alexandra; Hanzl-Weiss, Doris; … - 2021
-CEE) started their transition to market capitalism. All countries experienced deep recessions in the early 1990s, but since have … green transition, and d) use policy levers to stimulate the automation of low productivity jobs and ease the transition into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013429077
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How i learned to stop worrying and love the crisis
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - 2012
We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280828