Job creation and job destruction in a transition economy: Ownership, firm size, and gross job flows in Polish manufacturing 1988-91

Labour Economics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 299-317

  Konings, Jozef ^a   Lehmann, Hartmut ^b   Schaffer, Mark E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central and Eastern Europe; Job creation; Job destruction; Private firms; Transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030268675     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(96)00014-0     Document Type: Article

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