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CEP discussion paper
Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Transition Economy: Ownership

Comprehensive firm-level data for Polish manufacturing show that in state-owned firms the large drop in net employment since the start of the transition in 1990 has been driven by a jump in the job destruction rate; job ...Read more...

M Schaffer

March 1996

CEP discussion paper
Banks, Firms, Bad Debts and Bankruptcy in Hungary 1991-4

The paper examines Hungary's experience with banking and bankruptcy reform in the period 1992-94. The first part of the paper uses enterprise-level data to show that in 1992, the same year in which the amount of classif...Read more...

J Bonin and M Schaffer

April 1995

CEP discussion paper
Enterprise Adjustment in Poland: Evidence from a Survey of 200 Private

This paper reports the main findings from a survey of some 200 Polish firms carried out at the end of 1993. The central focus is on the relationship between different emerging forms of ownership and the extent and nature...Read more...

M Belka, Saul Estrin, M Schaffer and I.J. Singh

April 1995

CEP discussion paper
The Provision of Social Benefits in State Owned

We use evidence from a survey of approximately 200 Polish state-owned, privatized, and de novo private manufacturing firms to investigate the nature and scope of enterprises-level provision of social benefits, and in par...Read more...

Saul Estrin, M Schaffer and I.J. Singh

February 1995

CEP discussion paper
Government Financial Transfers and Enterprise Adjustments in Russia

This paper analyses the adjustments of state-owned enterprises in Russia to the economic reforms started in early 1992, drawing on evidence from enterprise visits, larger enterprise surveys, and aggregate data on the ent...Read more...

M Schaffer

February 1994

CEP discussion paper
The Economy of Poland

This paper presents a survey of the economy of Poland, covering both the pre-reform and developments in 1990-91. The first part of the paper outlines the basic features of the Polish economy, analyses its economic growth...Read more...

M Schaffer

March 1992

CEP discussion paper
A Note in the Polish State-Owned Enterprise Sector in 1990

This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the performance of the Polish state-owned enterprise sector in 1990, with particular attention to wages, output, profitability, and the contribution of enterprise taxation to...Read more...

M Schaffer

August 1991

CEP discussion paper
A New Method of Long-Run Growth Accounting with Applications to the Soviet Economy 1928-87 and the US Economy 1949-78

In this paper we develop a new model of growth accounting and use it to analyse the long-term growth of the US and the USSR. The technique is designed to capture the indirect or 'feedback' contributions of technological ...Read more...

Stanislaw Gomulka and M Schaffer

November 1990