Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1349

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Factor and Product Markets; Industry Studies; Population ; Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence ; Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs ; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
• Subject: job creation ; job destruction ; productivity decomposition ; privatization ; Ukraine ; Produktivität ; Beschäftigung ; Sektorale Beschäftigungsstruktur ; Systemtransformation ; Privatisierung ; Ukraine

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Brown, J. David ; Earle, John S.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2004

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20619
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