Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20619 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1349
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving universe of manufacturing firms inherited from the Soviet Union. Employment growth displays substantial increase in heterogeneity during this transition period, with a corresponding rise in excess job reallocation. Unlike data for Soviet Russia in the 1980s, Ukrainian job reallocation in the 1990s was clearly productivity-enhancing, both within and across industries. The paper also estimates the effects of firm and market characteristics on the magnitude of reallocation and on the extent to which it has contributed to aggregate productivity growth.
Subjects: 
job creation
job destruction
productivity decomposition
privatization
Ukraine
JEL: 
P23
O47
J63
E24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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