Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20507 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1243
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper presents one of the first studies of firm demographics in Estonia, particularly, on the processes of firm entry and exit as well as survival analysis of new firms. Also decompositions of productivity change into components consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and productivity growth within continuing firms is carried out. Our results, derived from a novel database of the population of Estonian firms, show that firm turnover has been rather high in Estonia during the observed period from 1995 to 2001, resulting from low institutional entry barriers and emergence of the SME sector. The high survival rates for new firms and surviving firms? relatively fast growth could reflect their relatively high productivity compared to incumbent firms and changes in the sectoral structure of the economy. The decomposition of productivity change shows that the high productivity growth has been mostly from within-firm productivity growth (e.g. the adoption of new production technologies and organizational changes), but the reallocation of production factors (especially the exit of low productivity units) has played an important role as well.
Subjects: 
firm survival
firm entry and exit
productivity decompositions
Estonia
JEL: 
D24
L11
O30
O12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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