Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20279 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1044
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an input index with annual industrial census data from 1985 to 2001, we find that Soviet Russia displayed low reallocation rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become substantial both through increased flows from less productive to more productive continuing firms and through higher exits of less productive entities – i.e., through creative destruction. Among the policy-relevant factors that may explain firm-level variation, privatization is estimated to have positive effects on productivity-enhancing reallocation, but there is less evidence of such effects from domestic product market competition, labor market competition, or import penetration.
Subjects: 
job creation
creative destruction
reallocation
productivity
Russia
Ukraine
JEL: 
J63
P23
O47
E24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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