The Impact of Structural Reforms on Employment Growth and Labour Productivity: Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Arbeitspapier

Using firm-level data from Bulgaria and Romania, this paper addresses a lacuna in the transition literature, namely, the link of firm-level employment turnover with firm-level growth in labour productivity. The results suggest that while net job creation at the firm level was affected by privatization in Bulgaria, privatization in Romania did not have any effect on firm-level employment growth. Further, Olley-Pakes (1996) decomposition indicates that in Bulgaria, over time, resources moved from less productive firms to more productive firms in almost all industries, but that in Romania such a phenomenon was observed in less than half of the industries. At the same time, the Grilliches-Regev (1995) decomposition indicates that in both these countries mobility of labour across firms, i.e., the process of job creation and job destruction at the firm level, contributed more to productivity changes than did other firm-level characteristics and industry-level factors affecting productivity. Finally, we find that the rate of employment changes in Bulgarian firms has a significant impact on the country's firm-level productivity changes. Regressions using Romania data, however, do not provide any support for this observation.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: LICOS Discussion Paper ; No. 132

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs ; Business Objectives of the Firm ; Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope ; Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out
• Thema: Privatisierung ; Beschäftigungseffekt ; Arbeitsproduktivität ; Bulgarien ; Rumänien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Dimova, Ralitza
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, LICOS Centre for Transition Economics
• (wo): Leuven
• (wann): 2003

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74835
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ