productivity, but they also underscore the risks of quantity-based incentives where quality is important. …

intensity, and labor productivity, but only weakly to job and worker turnover. Little evidence is found that firms' employment …

We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition … era to permit free competition and effective governance by new owners. -- enterprise restructuring ; privatization …

effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find … 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 …

Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this … countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a privatization dataset on the same countries, including sectoral … variables as controls. Our main finding is that disagreement with privatization is more likely when the respondent is poor …

reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet …