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Industrial productivity performance and institutional regimes : a Czechoslovak/UK comparison, 1921-1991

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Broadberry, S. N. and Klein, Alexander (2009) Industrial productivity performance and institutional regimes : a Czechoslovak/UK comparison, 1921-1991. In: 15th World Economic History Congress, Utrecht, 3-7 Aug 2009 (Unpublished)

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Abstract

This paper provides the first detailed quantitative study of labour productivity in an east European country in an international comparative framework covering both the interwar period of private enterprise and the postwar period of communist rule. Czechoslovak industrial labour productivity fluctuated around two-thirds of the UK level during the interwar period and from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s. During the high period of mass production in the early postwar period, Czechoslovakia’s productivity position even improved to around three-quarters of the UK level. During the 1980s, however, Czechoslovakia’s productivity position deteriorated sharply falling to around one third of the UK level by 1991. The relationship between institutional regime and productivity performance was historically contingent. Central planning allowed Czechoslovak industry to improve its comparative productivity position temporarily during the era of mass production, but could not adapt to the requirements of flexible production technology during the 1980s. The ensuing crisis contributed to the end of communist rule and the break-up of the Czechoslovak state.

Item Type: Conference Item (Paper)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Official Date: 7 August 2009
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7 August 2009Completion
Status: Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Unpublished
Version or Related Resource: Broadberry, Stephen and Klein, Alexander (2009). Industrial productivity performance and institutional regimes : a Czechoslovak/UK comparison, 1921-1991. In: CEI-RRC Joint International Workshop on Transition Economies. Hitotsubashi, 22 May 2009.
Conference Paper Type: Paper
Title of Event: 15th World Economic History Congress
Type of Event: Conference
Location of Event: Utrecht
Date(s) of Event: 3-7 Aug 2009
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