the data is used to measure and control for pre-privatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. The data …This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long … imply steadily increasing MFP as a result of domestic privatization, reaching about 25 percent relative to state-owned firms …

We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in … Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated …

used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 …This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … national probability sample of Ukrainian households. Detailed worker characteristics are used to control for compositional …

shows that the estimated correlation of privatization and mortality in country-level data is not robust to recomputing the … mass-privatization measure, to assuming a short lag for economic policies to affect mortality, and to controlling for … evidence that privatization increased mortality during the early 1990s. Finally, we reanalyze the relationship between …

measure and control for pre-privatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. We find that the magnitudes of our …This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the … estimates are robust to alternative functional forms, but sensitive to how we control for selection. Our preferred random growth …