IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 4 Balance between growing and shrinking firms (share of sample) by country group

From: Labor reallocation and firm growth: benchmarking transition countries against mature market economies

	Sales			Employment
Country group	1999	2002	2005	1999	2002	2005
I. W. Germany			0.051			−0.130
II. Cohesion			0.297			0.159
III. EU8	0.321	0.282	0.277	0.054	0.059	0.064
IVa. SEE	0.223	0.267	0.246	0.188	0.221	0.153
IVb. Mid inc CIS	0.098	0.461	0.520	−0.009	0.245	0.223
V. Low inc CIS	−0.035	0.292	0.340	−0.137	0.118	0.208
nb: E Germany			0.171			0.018

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