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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. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822646
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Institutions, Markets and Men’s and Women’s Wage Inequality: Evidence from Ukraine
Ganguli, Ina; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Ukraine, the second largest country in the former Soviet bloc, is facing the challenge of rallying popular support for … micro data set for Ukraine - the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) - to determine the extent to which the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822663
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Can State Language Policies Distort Students' Demand for Higher Education?
Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper takes advantage of a recent policy experiment in Ukraine's secondary education system to study the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805629
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Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia Danzer (née … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761796
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Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects
Konings, Jozef; Kupets, Olga; Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761798
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The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in the Ukrainian Labor Market
Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We examine the effects of economic transition on the pattern and costs of worker displacement in Ukraine, using the … displaced workers do not seem to be large. The main cost for displaced workers in Ukraine consists in the extremely long non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761883
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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762003
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Wage Ceilings and Floors: The Gender Gap in Ukraine’s Transition
Ganguli, Ina; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
across the distribution of wages in Ukraine during communism (1986), the start of transition (1991), and after Ukraine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762217
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762442
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition
Brown, David J.; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763506