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Transition economies: Performance and challenges

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J Svejnar - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: I present data and assess the first twelve years of the transition from plan to market.
Transformations have taken place, but the income gap between the transition and advanced
economies has widened. Transition countries further east have performed worse than ...
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Bargaining power, fear of disagreement, and wage settlements: Theory and evidence from US industry

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J Svejnar - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1986 - JSTOR
The paper develops and estimates a theoretical model of wage determination and union-
nonunion wage differentials. In order to overcome the institutional criticisms of the formal
bargaining literature, the paper generalizes the Nash-Zeuthen-Harsanyi model by linking ...
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Unemployment, labour markets and structural change in Eastern Europe

M Burda, C Bean… - Economic Policy, 1993 - JSTOR
Unemployment is a major concern in the transforming economies of Central and Eastern
Europe. The modern'flow approach'to labour markets suggests both that unemployment is
an important component of the transformation process and that the labour market ...
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Labor markets in the transitional Central and East European economies

J Svejnar - Handbook of labor economics, 1999 - Elsevier
Abstract In this chapter, I survey principal econometric studies of several important labor
market issues in Central and East European countries as they launched the transition from
central planning to a market economy. The topics covered include employment, wage and ...
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Investment, credit rationing, and the soft budget constraint: Evidence from Czech panel data

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L Lizal… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2002 - MIT Press
Strategic restructuring of firms through investment is key to a transition from plan to market.
Using data on industrial firms in the Czech Republic during 1992-1998, we find that foreign-
owned companies invest the most and cooperatives the least, that private firms do not ...
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Returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy

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D Münich, J Svejnar… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005 - MIT Press
We estimate returns to human capital during communism and the transition using data on
2,284 men in the Czech Republic. We show:(a) extremely low and constant rates of return to
education under the communist wage grid and dramatic increases in transition, which do ...
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Unemployment and the social safety net during transitions to a market economy: evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics

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JC Ham, J Svejnar… - American Economic Review, 1998 - JSTOR
We investigate the remarkably short unemployment spells in the Czech Republic compared
to Slovakia and other Central and East European economies. We estimate hazard functions
and find that 40 to 50 percent of the difference in unemployment durations between the ...
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[CITATION] The performance effects of employee ownership plans

MA Conte, J Svejnar - … : A look at the …, 1990 - Washington, DC: The Brookings …
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The economics of joint ventures in less developed countries

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J Svejnar… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1984 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract The paper examines the microeconomic (partial equilibrium) behavior of joint
ventures established between transnational corporations and domestic partners in less
developed countries. It focuses on issues relating to resource allocation and profit ...
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The productivity effects of worker participation: producer cooperatives in western economies

S Estrin, DC Jones… - Journal of Comparative Economics, 1987 - Elsevier
Abstract The paper presents econometric estimates of productivity effects of various forms of
worker participation in Western producer cooperatives. While the effects vary across
institutional settings, the overall effect is found to be positive. The positive effects are found ...
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Participation, profit sharing, worker ownership and efficiency in Italian producer cooperatives

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DC Jones… - Economica, 1985 - JSTOR
This paper analyses the productivity effects of worker participation in management, profit-
sharing and worker ownership. It develops an estimating framework and applies it to firm-
level data for Italian producer cooperatives, one of the largest and fastest growing systems ...
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Microeconomic issues in the transition to a market economy

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J Svejnar - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1991 - JSTOR
S ince most disintegrating socialist economies have experienced rising inflation, the
establishment of macroeconomic stability has been a natural IL focus of the intellectual and
policy debate about their reform. However, evidence from developing countries suggests ...
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The effects of privatization and ownership in transition economies

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S Estrin, J Hanousek, E Kocenda… - Journal of Economic …, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: In this paper, we evaluate what we have learned to date about the effects of
privatization from the experiences during the last fifteen to twenty years in the
postcommunist (transition) economies and, where relevant, China. We distinguish ...
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[CITATION] Productive efficiency and employment

J Svejnar - China's rural industry: Structure, development, and …, 1990
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Productivity effects of worker participation in management, profit-sharing, worker ownership of assets and unionization in US firms

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MA Conte… - International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1988 - Elsevier
Abstract In this paper we provide our first econometric estimates of the effect of worker
participation in decision-making, ownership and profits on productive efficiency.
Participation has the potential for exerting several conflicting influences on firm ...
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[CITATION] Participatory and self-managed firms: evaluating economic performance

DC Jones… - 1982 - Free Press
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Objectives and constraints of entrepreneurs: Evidence from small and medium size enterprises in Russia and Bulgaria

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F Pissarides, M Singer… - Journal of comparative economics, 2003 - Elsevier
We analyze the principal objectives and constraints of small and medium enterprises
(SMEs), using data from a survey of 437 top managers (CEOs) of SMEs in Russia and
Bulgaria. The CEOs display similar views and identify a small number of specific ...
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On the theory of a participatory firm

J Svejnar, A Panagariya, A Rees, J Vanek… - 1982 - Citeseer
Abstract This paper is a major revision of my May 1977 paper:'Theory of a Labor-Manager-
Shareholder (LMS) Managed Firm." I have greatly benefitted from discussions with Orley
Ashenfelter Gerald Epstein Edward Gree, Arvind Panagariya Albert Rees, Jaroslav Vanek ...
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Priorities and sequencing in privatization: Theory and evidence from the Czech Republic

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N Gupta, J Ham… - 2001 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: While privatization of state-owned enterprises has been one of the most important
aspects of the economic transition from a centrally planned to a market system, no transition
economy has privatized all its firms simultaneously. This raises the question of whether ...
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Distance to the efficiency frontier and foreign direct investment spillovers

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K Sabirianova, J Svejnar… - Journal of the European …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging
market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the
technological frontier set by foreign-owned firms. In both countries, the distance of ...
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Employment and wage behaviour of industrial enterprises in transition economies: The cases of Poland and Czechoslovakia1

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S Basu, S Estrin… - Economics of Transition, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In this paper we use two very large panel datasets from Poland, 1988-90 and
Czechoslovakia, 1990-1992 to explore the dynamics of employment and wage
determination at the enterprise level in the early years of transition. The study is intended ...
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[CITATION] The Czech Republic and Economic Transition in Eastern Europe

J Švejnar - 1995 - Academic Pr
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Using vouchers to privatize an economy: the Czech and Slovak case

J Svejnar… - Economics of Transition, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
The 1992 Czechoslovak privatization of state property has been widely heralded as one of
the most impressive accomplishments in the economic transformation of the formerly
communist economies. Before separating into two countries on January 1, 1993, ...
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Women's unemployment during transition

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JC Ham, J Svejnar… - Economics of Transition, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
2. Abstract We analyse women's weekly probabilities of leaving unemployment in the Czech
and Slovak Republics (CR and SR) in order to investigate three questions: 1) Why are
unemployment rates much lower in the CR than the SR?; 2) Does the unemployment ...
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Enterprises and workers in the transition: Econometric evidence

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J Svejnar - The American Economic Review, 1996 - JSTOR
The Central and East European (CEE) countries are in their sixth year of a dramatic
transition from a centrally planned to a market-based system. In the first phase of the
transition, most of these economies achieved macroeconomic stabilization, but they also ...
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Rapid and multifaceted privatization: Experience of the Czech and Slovak Republics

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J Kotrba… - MOCT-MOST: Economic Policy in Transitional …, 1994 - Springer
Like the other formerly communist countries, Czechoslovakia commenced its transformation
process from a position of extreme state ownership of the economy. Czechoslovakia was in
fact exceptional in that the extent of etatization was greater than in most other socialist ...
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Labor market flexibility in Central and East Europe

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J Svejnar - Beyond Transition. Ashgate Publishing, Burlington, …, 2004 - books.google.com
The fall of communism created expectations that the centrally planned economies would
experience rapid economic growth and gradually catch up with middleincome developed
countries as they moved to a market system. Yet, the relative performance of the transition ...
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Enterprise breakups and performance during the transition from plan to market

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L Lizal, M Singer… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001 - MIT Press
Using firm-level data, we estimate the effects of the major wave of 1991 breakups of
Czechoslovak state-owned enterprises on the subsequent performance of the'master
enterprises' and spun-off divisions. We estimate the performance effects of spinoffs by ...
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Foreign investment, corporate ownership, and development: Are firms in emerging markets catching up to the world standard?

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K Sabirianova Peter, J Svejnar… - CEPR Discussion Paper …, 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries
is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this
convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative ...
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When does FDI have positive spillovers? Evidence from 17 emerging market economies

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Y Gorodnichenko, J Svejnar… - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We use firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the
2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct
investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (ie, spillovers). ...
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[CITATION] Codetermination and productivity: Empirical evidence from the federal republic of Germany

J Svejnar - Participatory and Self-Managed Firms, edited by D. …, 1982
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Origin and concentration

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J Hanousek, E Kočenda… - Economics of Transition, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We analyse the effects of different types and concentration of ownership on performance
using a large population of firms in the Czech Republic after mass privatization.
Specifications based on first-differences combined with instrumental variables show that ...
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Behavior of participatory firms in Yugoslavia: Lessons for transforming economies

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J Prasnikar, J Svejnar, D Mihaljek… - The review of economics …, 1994 - JSTOR
The paper develops a multi-party model of enterprise behavior, with the management,
workers and government authorities being the decisionmakers. The model captures the
behavior of Yugoslav enterprises in the 1970s and 1980s, enterprises in transitional ...
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Manager interests, breakups and performance of state enterprises in transition

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L Lizal, M Singer… - Ann Arbor, 1994 - papers.ssrn.com
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Interests, Breakups and Performance of State Enterprises in Transition Lubomir
Lízal* Miroslav Singer** Jan Švejnar** May 1994 Abstrakt Tato ...
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The effects of ownership forms and concentration on firm performance after large-scale privatization

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J Svejnar… - William Davidson Institute Working Paper …, 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually
complete population of medium and large firms privatized in a model large-scale
privatization economy (Czech Republic). We reject the hypothesis that domestic or foreign ...
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[PDF] Stabilization and transition in Czechoslovakia

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K Dyba… - 1994 - nber.org
Unlike most other socialist countries, Czechoslovakia used to be a relatively developed
economy that became underdeveloped as a result of an externally imposed system.'It is also
a country that maintained relative macro stability and thus entered the economic ...
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[CITATION] Economic behavior of Yugoslav enterprises

J Prasnikar… - Advances in the economic analysis of participatory and …, 1988
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[CITATION] A comparative view of economic developments in the Czech Republic

K Dyba… - The Czech Republic and …, 1995 - Academic Press: San Diego, CA
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Ownership, control and corporate performance after large-scale privatization

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J Hanousek, E Kocenda… - William Davidson Institute …, 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a
population of firms in a model large-scale privatization economy (Czech Republic). Using
specifications based on first-differences and unique instrumental variables, we find that ...
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Is women's human capital valued more by markets than by planners?

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D Münich, J Svejnar… - Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005 - Elsevier
Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various
measures of human capital at three points in time, namely, the end of Communism (1989), in
mid-transition (1996), and in late-transition (2002). We find dramatic increases in returns ...
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Worker-firm matching and unemployment in transition to a market economy:(why) were the Czechs more successful than others?

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D Munich, J Svejnar… - 1998 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
Using panel district level data from the Czech and Slovak Republic in the 1990s, we find that
the exceptionally low unemployment rate in the Czech Republic as compared to Slovakia
and the other CEE economies has been brought about principally by the following ...
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[HTML] The Effect of Output, Ownership, and Legal Form on Employment and Wages in Central European Firms

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S Estrin… - … and Unemployment in Models of Transition, …, 1998 - books.google.com
This chapter will offer an assessment of how Czech, Hungarian, Polish, and Slovak
industrial firms adjusted their employment and wages in response to changes in output,
ownership, and legal form in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This analysis is of interest for ...
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Employment and wages in enterprises under communism and in transition: evidence from Central Europe and Russia

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S Basu, S Estrin… - 2000 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper presents a comparative analysis of employment and wage behavior of
firms in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Russia during the late 1980s to
the early 1990s. The four main findings are: 1) There is evidence of some (not excessive) ...
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Enterprise investment during the transition: evidence from Czech panel data

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L Lizal… - 1997 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
We analyze investment behavior of the population of medium and large industrial firms
located in the Czech Republic in 1992-95. We examine the relevance of alternative models
of investment and test if investment behavior varies across ownership-legal form ...
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Czechoslovakia: Recent economic developments and prospects

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K Dyba… - The American Economic Review, 1991 - JSTOR
Czechoslovakia provides a unique example of a country that became underdeveloped as a
result of an externally imposed system. Before World War II, Czechoslovakia was a
democracy, with GNP per capita similar to that of Belgium and Austria. Its industries were ...
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Relative wage effects of unions, dictatorship and codetermination: econometric evidence from Germany

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J Svejnar - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1981 - JSTOR
T HE present study estimates the effects of trade unions, Hitler's regime, and
codetermination on relative wages in Germany. I Each of these establishments is considered
to have had important implications for Germany's labor market. Moreover, a thorough ...
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[HTML] Czech Republic and Slovakia,“

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JC Ham, J Svejnar… - … and the Labor Market in Eastern …, 1995 - books.google.com
In labor market performance, the Czech Republic (CR) is unique among the transitional
economies of Central and Eastern Europe. Its unemployment rate is the third lowest in the
world, wages are competitively low, and the population is peacefully accepting the trials ...
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Employment determination in enterprises under communism and in transition: Evidence from Central Europe

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S Basu, S Estrin… - Indus. & Lab. Rel. Rev., 2004 - HeinOnline
The authors present a comparative analysis of employment determination in four transition
economies as they moved from central planning to a market economy in the early 1990s.
They use firm-level panel data sets from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and ...
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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets

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Y Gorodnichenko, J Svejnar… - 2008 - nber.org
Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to
innovate and improve their competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 emerging market
economies, we estimate the effects of foreign competition, vertical linkages with foreign ...
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Do institutions, ownership, exporting and competition explain firm performance? Evidence from 26 transition countries

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J Svejnar… - Ann Arbor, 2007 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures
of performance and each firm's top manager's perception of the severity of business
environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on ...
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[BOOK] Reducing Labor Redundancy in State-Owned Enterprises

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J Svejnar… - 1991 - books.google.com
The severity of labor redundancy has been underestimated because of difficulties in
conceptualizing the issue and finding politically acceptable solutions. Schemes to reduce
labor redundancy can decrease the wage bill significantly and allow fairly high ...
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[CITATION] Workers' Participation in Management vs. Social Ownership and Government Policies: Yugoslav Lessons for Transforming Socialist Economies&ast

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J Prasnikar… - Comparative Economic Studies, 1991 - palgrave-journals.com
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[CITATION] Unemployment, the social safety net and efficiency in transition: evidence from micro data on Czech and Slovak men

JC Ham, K Terrell… - 1996 - Nat. Council for Soviet and East …
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Priorities and sequencing in privatization: Evidence from Czech firm panel data

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N Gupta, JC Ham… - European Economic Review, 2008 - Elsevier
While privatization of state-owned enterprises has been one of the most important aspects of
the economic transition from a centrally planned to a market system, no transition economy
has privatized all its firms simultaneously. This raises the question of whether ...
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Financial conditions and investment during the transition: evidence from Czech firms

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L Lizal… - 2000 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In this paper, we examine net investment during the early stages of transition using
micro data on the population of medium and large industrial firms in the Czech Republic
during the 1992-95 period. We examine the relevance of alternative models of investment ...
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[PDF] A framework for the economic transformation of Czechoslovakia

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J Svejnar - PlanEcon Report, 1989 - mizici.com
The goal of this report is to contribute to the discussion about the optimal way to transform
the Czechoslovak economy from a centrally planned to a decentralized market system.
Since there exists no formal theory of such a transition, the approach adopted here is to ...
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[BOOK] Investment, wages and ownership during the transition to a market economy: Evidence from Slovenian firms

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J Prasnikar, J Svejnar… - 2003 - wdi.umich.edu
Abstract: Given the concern about restructuring and the role of insiders during the transition,
we analyze the determinants of (and tradeoff between) investment and wages in Slovenian
firms. We find that investment behavior is more consistent with the imperfect capital market ...
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Ownership and firm performance after large-scale privatization

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E Kocenda… - Ann Arbor, 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually
complete population of medium and large firms privatized in a model large-scale
privatization economy (Czech Republic). We find that concentrated foreign ownership ...
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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets

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Y Gorodnichenko, J Svejnar… - American economic …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging
markets to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using data from 27 emerging
market economies, we estimate the effects of foreign competition and linkages with foreign ...
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Structural adjustment policies and productive efficiency of socialist enterprises

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J Prasnikar, J Svejnar… - European Economic Review, 1992 - Elsevier
The paper uses panel data from a five percent stratified random sample of Yugoslav
industrial enterprises to test several hypotheses about the determinants of productive
efficiency. The estimating procedure selects the production function best supported by the ...
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[CITATION] The industrial labor market and economic performance in Senegal: a study in enterprise ownership, export orientation, and government regulation

KD Terrell… - 1989 - getcited.org
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Wage determination in labor-managed firms under market-oriented reforms: estimates of static and dynamic models

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E Saul… - Journal of Comparative economics, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract In this paper we present a framework for analyzing the wide wage dispersion
observed in a suddenly decentralized socialist system with workers′ control. We model a
process through which workers may appropriate capital rents as income and, using ...
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[CITATION] Unemployment in the Czech and Slovak Republics

J Svejnar, K Terrell… - Chapter, 1995
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A framework for the economic transformation of Czechoslovakia

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J Švejnar - Eastern European Economics, 1990 - JSTOR
Page 1. JAN tVEJNAR A Framework for the Economic Transformation of
Czechoslovakia 1. Introduction The goal of this paper is to contribute to the discussion
about the optimal way to transform the Czechoslovak economy from ...
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[CITATION] Development patterns in four counties

J Svejnar… - China's Rural Industry: Structure, Development, and …, 1990
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[CITATION] Labor Market Adjustment in Transitional Economics

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[CITATION] The Worker-firm Matching in Transition Economies:(why) are the Czechs More Successful Then Others?

D Münich, J Svejnar, K Terrell… - 1998
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Restructuring of firms in transition: ownership, institutions and openness to trade

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P Domadenik, J Prašnikar… - Journal of international …, 2008 - palgrave-journals.com
Abstract We develop a theoretical framework for defensive and strategic restructuring, and
provide estimates of restructuring in privatized firms in an advanced transition economy:
Slovenia. Our rich data point to both types of restructuring, as well credit rationing and ...
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[PDF] Privatization revisited: the effects of foreign and domestic owners on corporate performance

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L Lizal… - Ann Arbor, 2003 - cepr.eu
Abstract Privatization of state enterprises is often viewed as a necessary condition for
improved corporate performance, but many studies suffer from methodological and data
problems. We use a 1992-98 panel of the population of Czech industrial firms to assess ...
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[CITATION] Chinese TVPs in an international perspective

A Gelb… - China's rural industry: Structure, development, and …, 1990
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Market imperfections, labor management, and earnings differentials in a developing country: Theory and evidence from Yugoslavia

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S Estrin, RE Moore… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 1988 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract In this paper we evaluate empirically the relative importance of two explanations of
Yugoslav interindustry income differentials. One explanation, proposed initially by Vanek
and Jovicic [1975], stresses capital market imperfections which permit capital rents to be ...
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Divestitures, privatization and corporate performance in emerging markets

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J Hanousek, E Kočenda… - Economics of Transition, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We use new firm-level data to examine the effects of firm divestitures and privatization on
corporate performance in a rapidly emerging market economy. Unlike the existing literature,
we control for accompanying ownership changes and the fact that divestitures and ...
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Defensive and strategic restructuring of firms during the transition to a market economy

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P Domadenik, J Prašnikar… - 2003 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
We develop a theoretical framework and provide empirical estimates of the extent of several
forms of restructuring in 130 privatized firms in a model transition economy (Slovenia) during
the 1996-1998 period. In view of the institutional developments in the transition ...
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[CITATION] The Emergence of Unemployment in the Czech and Slovak Republics&ast

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J Ham, J Svejnar… - Comparative Economic Studies, 1993 - econpapers.repec.org
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[BOOK] Economic policies and agricultural performance in Sri Lanka, 1960-1984

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AND AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE IN SRI LANKA 1960-1984 BY ERIK
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Wage determination under communism and in transition: Evidence from central Europe

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S Basu, S Estrin… - IZA Discussion Paper No. 1276, 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Using large firm-level data sets from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and
Hungary, we show that the wage behavior of firms changed considerably as these
economies launched their transitions to a market system. We find evidence of worker ...
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Employee participation in management, bargaining power and wages

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J Svejnar - European Economic Review, 1982 - Elsevier
The paper analyzes the impact of employee participation in management on bargaining
power and wages. It presents an empirical model which allows for variable bargaining
powers of the parties who jointly control the firm and it tests this model with postwar West ...
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Enterprises in the post-privatization period: firm-level evidence for Slovenia

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J Prašnikar, J Svejnar… - Eastern European Economics, 2000 - JSTOR
Most empirical studies in recent times have examined the effects of privatization and new
ownership structures on enterprise performance in transition economies. Although the initial
expectation was very optimistic, the empirical evidence does not confirm the hypothesis ...
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Origin and concentration: corporate ownership, control and performance

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J Hanousek, E Kočenda… - Ann Arbor, 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
Page 1. 259 Charles University Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education Academy
of Sciences of the Czech Republic Economics Institute Jan Hanousek Evžen Kočenda Jan Švejnar
ORIGIN AND CONCENTRATION: CORPORATE OWNERSHIP, ...
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On the empirical testing of the Nash-Zeuthen bargaining solution

J Svejnar - Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1980 - JSTOR
This paper examines several methodological problems encountered by researchers who
have attempted to test the existence of the Nash-Zeuthen bargaining solution. The author
attributes the problems to a misrepresentation of Nash-Zeuthen theories, weak empirical ...
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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance?

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S Commander… - 2008 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
We analyse a large stratified random sample of firms that provide measures of each firm's
top manager's perception of the severity of business environment constraints. Specifically,
we use the 2005 and 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey ( ...
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[CITATION] The Czech and Slovak Labor Markets during the Transition

JC Ham, J Svejnar, KD Terrell… - 1994 - National Council for Soviet and East …
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[CITATION] Final report to the Czech Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs on the retrospective questionnaire on employment histories

D Munich, J Svejnar… - Unpublished, May, 1997
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[CITATION] Employment and Wage Behavior of Enterprises under Communism and in Transition: Evidence from Central Europe and Russia

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Unemployment and worker-firm matching: Theory and evidence from East and West Europe

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D Munich… - Ann Arbor, 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The paper tests three hypotheses about the causes of unemployment in the Central-
East European transition economies and in a benchmark market economy (Western part of
Germany). The first hypothesis (H1) is that unemployment is caused by inefficient ...
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Wage and non-wage labour costs in the Czech Republic–the impact of fringe benefits

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RK Filer, O Schneider… - Enterprise and social benefits …, 1997 - books.google.com
This paper discusses the development of non-wage benefits in the Czech economy during
the transition from a planned to a market economy. This development is perhaps best
understood as a two-step process. In the first stage many fundamental welfare activities, ...
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Optimal membership, employment, and income distribution in unionized and labor-managed firms

F Spinnewyn… - Journal of labor economics, 1990 - JSTOR
This article presents a static and dynamic intertemporal analysis of employment and income
distribution in unionized and labor-managed firms. Motivated by theoretical considerations
and institutional features of Western trade unions and labor-managed firms, we examine ...
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[CITATION] Explaining unemployment dynamics in the Czech and Slovak Republics

J Svejnar, J Ham, KD Terrell, D Munich… - 1996 - National Council for Soviet and East …
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[PDF] Pensions in the Former Soviet Bloc: Problems and Solutions

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J Svejnar - The Coming Global Pension Crisis, Council on Foreign …, 1997 - wdi.umich.edu
The former Soviet bloc countries (FSBCs), denned here broadly to include Albania and
former Yugoslavia, face an acute crisis in their pension system. The problem is in many
respects more serious than that faced by OECD countries and it stems from the collapse of ...
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Unemployment in East and West Europe

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D Münich… - Labour Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
We use new 1991–2005 panel data to address the issue of unemployment in Central-East
Europe. We compare the evolution of unemployment, its dynamics and related phenomena
in five former communist economies in the Central Europe and use the geographically ...
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[PDF] Investment and wages during the transition: evidence from Slovene firms

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J Prasnikar… - William Davidson Institute Working Papers …, 1998 - cerge-ei.cz
Studies of investment behavior have always played a key part in western economics. On the
demand side, much of the literature has focused on establishing the relative merits of the
dynamic structural, Tobin Q, neoclassical, and accelerator models of investment, while ...
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[CITATION] Investment and wages in the Slovenian firms during the transition

J Prasnikar, J Svejnar… - The William Davidson Institute at the University of …, 1998
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[CITATION] The effects of worker participation in management, profits, and ownership of assets on enterprise performance

MA Conte… - New Developments in the Labor Market: Toward a New …, 1990
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[CITATION] Czech and Slovak Federal Republic: a solid foundation

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[PDF] Assistance to the Transition Economies: Were There Alternatives?

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J Svejnar - Background paper on Transition Economies. …, 2002 - www-wds.worldbank.org
1. Twelve years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, domestic and international analysts of the
transition economies by and large agree that the transition from central planning to a market
economy has been exceedingly difficult. There has also been a major debate about the ...
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[CITATION] Determinants and effects of technological choice

J Svejnar… - Internal and External Constraints on Technological …, 1982
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[PDF] Restructuring Slovenian Firms in imperfectly developed markets

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P Domadenik, J Prasnikar… - WDI & CEPR Conference …, 2001 - umar.gov.si
Recent empirical studies (Djankov, Murrel, 2000; Carlin et al., 2000) show that privatisation
in transition countries led to improved firm-level efficiency, but the positive effect was smaller
than expected from experiences of developed countries. Stiglitz (1999a, 1999b) argues ...
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[CITATION] The varying nature, importance and productivity effects of worker participation: evidence for contemporary producer cooperatives in industrialised Western …

S Estrin, DC Jones… - 1984 - … de recherches et d'information sur l' …
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[CITATION] Economic policies and agricultural performance: the case of Nepal, 1960-1982

J Svejnar… - 1986 - orton.catie.ac.cr
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[CITATION] An overview of recent economic developments in the Czech Republic

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