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dc.contributor.authorBrown, J. Daviden
dc.contributor.authorEarle, John S.en
dc.date.accessioned2008-09-26-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:33:01Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:33:01Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-2008092978en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35052-
dc.description.abstractWe 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 entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are very low under socialism. After reforms, they rise dramatically, and productivity contributions greatly exceed those observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but later, and on average over the whole transition, this relationship is reversed. Though reallocation rates are larger in faster reforming economies, higher productivity dispersion in slower reformers creates much higher productivity gains for a given volume of reallocation. The results imply that reallocation should be viewed as necessary regular maintenance for a well-functioning economy, and particularly large productivity contributions tend to reflect previous neglect more than current virtue.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x3683en
dc.subject.jelE32en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordProductivityen
dc.subject.keywordreallocationen
dc.subject.keywordindustry dynamicsen
dc.subject.keywordcreative destructionen
dc.subject.keywordreformen
dc.subject.keywordtransitionen
dc.subject.keywordGeorgiaen
dc.subject.keywordHungaryen
dc.subject.keywordLithuaniaen
dc.subject.keywordRomaniaen
dc.subject.keywordRussiaen
dc.subject.keywordUkraineen
dc.subject.stwIndustrieller Strukturwandelen
dc.subject.stwArbeitsmobilitäten
dc.subject.stwProduktivitäten
dc.subject.stwÜbergangswirtschaften
dc.subject.stwInnovationswettbewerben
dc.subject.stwGeorgienen
dc.subject.stwUngarnen
dc.subject.stwLitauenen
dc.subject.stwRumänienen
dc.subject.stwRusslanden
dc.subject.stwUkraineen
dc.titleUnderstanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth: lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn578593904en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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