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Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...
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but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …
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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 decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...
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benefits arising from integrating into electronics GPNs have materialized in Hungary, an established player and the most … important electronics exporting country in the region, and Romania, a newcomer country in electronics manufacturing. To analyse …
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large, positive, but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of both types in Russia and Ukraine. The …
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. The positive effects emerge within a year in Hungary, Romania, and Ukraine and continue to grow thereafter, but are still … employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we estimate that majority privatization raises MFP about 28% in Romania, 22 …% in Hungary, and 3% in Ukraine, with some variation across specifications, while in Russia it lowers it about 4 …
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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 decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288001
result from effects on scale, productivity, and costs that are large but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small … Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated …
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models imply that majority privatization raises MFP about 15% in Romania, 8% in Hungary, and 2% in Ukraine, while in Russia …. Positive domestic effects appear within a year in Hungary, Romania, and Ukraine and continue growing thereafter, but take 5 …
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As the sharing economy continues to diffuse in the global sphere, this paper seeks to understand the relevant behavioral antecedents for individuals to supply resources in technology-enabled platforms, especially in environments where resource scarcity subsists and the cultural landscape varies....
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