Dynamics of Firm-level Job Flows in Slovenia, 1996–2011Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 56 - Trang 77-109 - 2014
Biswajit Banerjee, Manca Jesenko
Firm-level employment changes were associated with simultaneous high rates of gross job creation, destruction, and reallocation. These job flows primarily reflected persistent firm-level employment changes. There was considerable variation in job flow rates across sectors. Sectors that created more jobs also destroyed more jobs. Job destruction was more volatile than job creation. Relative volatil...... hiện toàn bộ
The Military Origins of Soviet IndustrializationSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 57 - Trang 669-692 - 2015
Vladimir Kontorovich
The predominant account of Soviet industrialization in Western literature is that it aimed at accelerating economic growth by concentrating investment in heavy industry, a strategy credited to Preobrazhenskii and Feldman. Using evidence from the Soviet sources, this article proposes an alternative origin of the strategy of industrialization and suggests different motives for the policy. It finds n...... hiện toàn bộ
Part-time Farming Trends in China: A Comparison with the Japanese and Korean Experience1Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 43 - Trang 99-132 - 2001
Zhang-Yue Zhou, Daniel A Sumner, Hyunok Lee
A better understanding of the development of part-time farming in China would be invaluable both for academic inquiry and policy formulation. This study, using farm-level survey data, examines the development of part-time farming in China. The two key questions examined are (1) how part-time farming evolves over time and (2) how part-time farming may be related to regional economic development. Th...... hiện toàn bộ
Bribes, Rents and Industrial Firm Performance in Albania and KosovoSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 62 - Trang 263-302 - 2020
Luca J. Uberti
Using data from a novel representative survey, we examine how corruption affects the performance of industrial-sector firms in Albania and Kosovo, two low–middle-income post-socialist economies in the Western Balkan region. Bribes are costs that firms incur to “grease the wheels” of the bureaucracy and/or to seek rents. Rents, however, may improve firm performance. Thus, to estimate the total effe...... hiện toàn bộ
How Risky is Financial Liberalization in the Developing Countries?Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 44 - Trang 1-26 - 2002
Charles Wyplosz
Using a sample of 27 developing and developed economies this paper asks whether financial liberalization is hazardous. It adds to the existing literature in four respects. First, it moves away from the binary coding used to identify crises, thus ignoring the difference between big and small ones. Second, it takes into account both domestic and external financial restrictions. Third, it looks separ...... hiện toàn bộ