What Drives the Speed of Job Reallocation during Episodes of Massive Adjustment?

Stepan Jurajda and Katherine Terrell

CERGE-EI Working Papers from The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague

Abstract: This paper uses individual-level data to characterize economy-wide job creation and destruction during periods of massive structural adjustment. We contrast the gradualist Czech and the rapid Estonian approach to the destruction of the communist economy to provide evidence on selected macroeconomic theories of reallocation with frictions. We find that gradualism (slowing down job destruction) effectively synchronizes job creation and destruction. Drastic job destruction leads to little or no slowdown of job creation. Small newly established firms are the under-researched fountainhead of jobs during the transition from communist to market oriented economies.

Date: 2001-12
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Working Paper: What Drives the Speed of Job Reallocation During Episodes of Massive Adjustment? (2002)
Working Paper: What Drives the Speed of Job Reallocation During Episodes of Massive Adjustment? (2002)
Working Paper: What Drives the Speed of Job Reallocation During Episodes of Massive Adjustment? (2002)
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