Similar Search Results

Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566810

Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233777

Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822646

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Romanian Migrants during Transition and Enlargements

Andrén, Daniela; Roman, Monica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

, the aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent Romania's accession to the EU in 2007 has added new features to the … prefer to develop adjustment strategies in their destination countries. Romania's accession to the EU in 2007 did not …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105409

The Impact of Parents Migration on the Well-being of Children Left Behind: Initial Evidence from Romania

Botezat, Alina; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … instrumental variable and bivariate probit estimates have been performed. Our initial evidence demonstrates that in Romania home …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781558

What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania containing detailed information from the startup date through 2001. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762176

The Changing Demand for Skills: Evidence from the Transition

Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762414

Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763690

Labor Market Dynamics in Romania During a Period of Economic Liberalization

Dostie, Benoit; Sahn, David E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, we estimate a model of labor market dynamics among individuals in Romania using panel data for three …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703018

Speeding Up the Product Cycle: The Role of Host Country Reforms

Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We study the effects of policy reforms in the South on the decisions of intrafirm and arm's length production transfers by Northern firms. We show theoretically that relaxing ownership controls and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to expand product varieties to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353426