Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/37169 
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Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Convergence and Structural Change No. D5-V4
Publisher: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Despite rapid economic integration and massive help from the Federal Government East German productivity catching up faded out in the nineties. This paper presents panel-data estimates of the productivity adjustment based on a production function framework and a stylized adjustment model of the economy. The central empirical result is a decomposition of the sources of productivity growth. The estimates reveal that a large part of productivity growth in the early nineties is related to factors that were specific for those period. The fading out since the mid-nineties is attributed to the development of total factor productivity.
Subjects: 
Economics of transition
productivity convergence
JEL: 
O11
O47
P20
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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