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 … models imply that majority privatization raises MFP about 15% in Romania, 8% in Hungary, and 2% in Ukraine, while in Russia …

We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … workers' fears, our fixed effect and random trend estimates imply little effect of domestic privatization, except for a slight … countries. The negligible employment impact of domestic privatization results from effects on efficiency and scale that are …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …

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 …

paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labour markets, and …, privatization is estimated to have positive effects on productivity-enhancing reallocation, but there is less evidence of such …

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. Pre-privatization 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 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% in Romania, 22 …%. Privatization to foreign rather than domestic investors has a larger impact (about 44%) and is much more consistent across countries …