transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving …

We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and … one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus …, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …

manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies … Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect on performance of ownership, competition, export orientation and the … variables and endogeneity that plague studies in this area. We find that foreign ownership and competition have an impact on …

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition …

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique data set of more … connection with other evidence we infer from this that Ukraine is only at the beginning of the restructuring process. The most …

We examine the effects of economic transition on the pattern and costs of worker displacement in Ukraine, using the … displaced workers do not seem to be large. The main cost for displaced workers in Ukraine consists in the extremely long non …

paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports … in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an …, privatization is estimated to have positive effects on productivity-enhancing reallocation, but there is less evidence of such …