universe of manufacturing firms inherited from the Soviet Union. Employment growth displays substantial increase in …

clear-cut result of our analysis is the strong positive effect of new private firms on net employment growth, a finding … established for other transition economies as well. At the same time, we do not find differences in the employment growth of state … employment growth and of size and job reallocation. Finally, we establish that strong foreign trade links force firms to shed …

.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on … firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history, and with instrumental variables capturing ease of access to SBA … constraints impede small business growth prior to loan receipt. We also investigate the variation in estimated employment effects …

that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

.S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list … years of employment history and other variables. The results imply positive average effects on loan recipient employment of …

.S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list … years of employment history and other variables. The results imply positive average effects on loan recipient employment of …