Gross Worker and Job Flows in a Transition Economy: An Analysis of Estonia by
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The results and conclusions of this analysis are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect concurrence by the World Bank. We thank Debabrata Das for superb research assistance. 1 For example, recent studies indicate that about half of the productivity growth in U.S. 1 manufacturing over the 1980s is accounted for by the reallocation of resources from less productive to more productive establishments. See Foster, Haltiwanger and Krizan (1998) for a recent survey of this evidence.
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