unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …

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 … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers …

This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 … percent and cuts the layoff probability in half. Outside investor ownership reduces separations but leaves wages unaffected …

Workers in rural areas earn lower wages than nonrural workers and previous evidence has attributed these differences to … the broader group of rural workers. While there is extensive evidence on both the structure of wages and the source of …. Second, it provides new evidence of the structure of wages faced by American Indians, a group typically ignored in empirical …