privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity … this effect is driven by the impact of bureaucracy on the post-privatization business environment, with better …

Russia, facilitating identification through fixed effects for employees, employers, and local labor markets, and instrumental …

This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … differences and to assess types of observable "winners" and "losers" from privatization. Preprivatization worker-firm matches are … used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 …

We analyze the role of privatization in creating a constituency for economic reform, markets, and democratic … privatization, we find positive effects for participants retaining shares, but little impact of participation alone. Our simulations …

models imply that majority privatization raises MFP about 15% in Romania, 8% in Hungary, and 2% in Ukraine, while in Russia … years after privatization to emerge in Russia. …This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the …

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 …

continue to grow thereafter, but are still ambiguous even after 5 years in Russia. Pre-privatization MFP exceeds that of firms …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 …

question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and nonpayment of wages, in Russia during …