Workshop on Productivity in Eastern Europe and Central Asia,  October 31, 2005

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 Productivity Concept Paper:

Creating Wealth: An Analysis of Labor Productivity Trends and Issues in Eastern Europe
and the Former Soviet Union. The World Bank, 2005.

World Bank, 2006, EU-8 Quarterly Economic Report -- Special Topic, February 2006.

 Special Topics:

Global Integration and Technology Transfer, Ed. by B. Hoekman and B. S. Javorcik

Blanchard, O., 2005, European Unemployment: the Evolution of Facts and Ideas,
Economic Policy, January 2006, pp. 5-59.

Bartelsman, E., John Haltiwanger, and Stefano Scarpetta, 2004, "Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries", World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3464.

 Skills and Productivity:

Acemoglu, Daron and Fabrizio Zilibotti. Productivity Differences. April, 2000.

 Productivity and Employment Growth in New Member States:

Seema Jayachandran. Selling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries. University of California, Berkley and Los Angeles

Gabor Pellenyi. Employment, Wages and Competitiveness in the Central European New Member States. ICEG European Center. Presentation for the joint conference of MGYOSZ-ICEG, Brussels, November 18, 2005.

Bakacs, Andras and Pal Gaspar. The Comparative Performance of the NMS-8 in the Major Competitiveness Related Lisbon Indicators. Presentation for the Conference Competitiveness in the New Member States: the Case of Hungary. Brussels, November 18, 2005.

 IST and Growth:

Gaspar, Pal and Renata Anna Jaksa. IST and Competitiveness in the New Member States. Presentation for the Conference Competitiveness in the New Member States: the Case of Hungary. Brussels. November 18, 2005.

 Agriculture and Productivity:

Dudwick, Nora, Karina Fock, and David Sedik. A Stocktaking of Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Bulgaria, Moldova, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. June 2005.

Macours, Karen and Johana F.M.Swinnen. Rural Poverty in Transition Countries. January 26, 2005.

 Public Investment:

De la Fuente, Angel. Second-best Redistribution through Public Investment: a Characterization, an Empirical Test and an Application to the Case of Spain. Instituto de Analisis Economico (CSIC), Campus de la Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. September 17, 2003.

Deichmann, Uwe, Kai Kaiser, Somik V. Lall, and Zmarak Shalizi.  Agglomeration, Transport, and Regional Development in Indonesia. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3477, January, 2005.

 Working Papers on Income Distribution:

Dew-Becker, Ian and Robert J. Gordon. Where Did the productivity Growth Do? Inflation Dynamics and the Distribution of Income.  Working Paper 11842. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, December 2005.

Piketty, Thomas and Emmanuel Saez. The Evolution of the Top Incomes: A Historical and International Perspective.  Working Paper 11955. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, January 2006.