Job Creation and Destruction: Evidence from the Slovak Republic 2000 – 2004
Job Creation and Destruction: Evidence from the Slovak Republic 2000 – 2004

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, job flows and their determinants in the Slovak labor market over the period 2000 – 2004 are documented and analyzed. Using the dataset that covers a substantial part of the Slovak enterprise environment (the sample is restricted to enterprises with at least 20 employees), we focus on different issues of gross job reallocation. We find that job destruction dominates over job crea-tion and job reallocation rates are comparable to those found in other transition economies. We show that most of the job reallocation emerges within the groups considered rather than between groups, the pattern that prevails in mature market economies. Finally, we investigate the enterprise growth and our results in-dicate that the probability of employment growth depends positively on owner-ship type and negatively on the initial size

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