one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A natural experiment – the massive privatization process in post …-Soviet countries – allows correcting potential self-selection bias. Industry-specific privatization probabilities are assigned to …

evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the likelihood of privatization reversals, (b) worsened terms of trade increase …

the negligible consequences of domestic privatization result from effects on scale, productivity, and costs that are large … 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 …

Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this … countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a privatization dataset on the same countries, including sectoral … variables as controls.. Our main finding is that disagreement with privatization is more likely when the respondent is poor …

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 objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries … external liberalization and privatization, concentration of political power drives internal liberalization, and democracy … underpins all three. We find that FDI inflows reduce the probability of privatization reversals, labour strikes increase that of …

the 1980s, Ukrainian job reallocation in the 1990s was clearly productivity-enhancing, both within and across industries … to which it has contributed to aggregate productivity growth. …

effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find … privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization …

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm …

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms – privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization – as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …