employer-employee data (LEED) from Hungary containing 1.35mln worker-year observations for 21,238 firms from 1986 to 2003. We …

models imply that majority privatization raises MFP about 15% in Romania, 8% in Hungary, and 2% in Ukraine, while in Russia …This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the … measure and control for pre-privatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. We find that the magnitudes of our …

Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated …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 …

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe … employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we estimate that majority privatization raises MFP about 28 percent in … Romania, 22 percent in Hungary, and 3 percent in Ukraine, with some variation across specifications, while in Russia it lowers …

To evaluate the effectiveness of self-employment assistance to the unemployed in Hungary and Poland more than 5 … Hungary may have been due to a reluctance for full disclosure to tax authorities. In both countries there were appreciable …. Among subgroups, self- employment appeared to be more effective in high unemployment areas in Hungary, among females in …

earnings in the Republic of Hungary during the early phase of post-Socialist economic restructuring. Since assignment to …

markets, the governments of Hungary and Poland provide labor force members with unemployment compensation and a variety of …-employment, and comparison groups were done in Hungary and Poland in early 1997. Preliminary analysis suggests positive net impacts … of the findings is necessary. Adjusted impact estimates for Hungary are provided, but supplementary data is needed from …