This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a … long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large size and length of the time series in the … data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells …

the negligible consequences of domestic privatization result from effects on scale, productivity, and costs that are large …-improvement effect, and the positive wage outcome from productivity improvement dominating the cost-reduction effect. -- Privatization … transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries …

We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving … the 1980s, Ukrainian job reallocation in the 1990s was clearly productivity-enhancing, both within and across industries … to which it has contributed to aggregate productivity growth. …

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

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 …

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 …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are … very low under socialism. After reforms, they rise dramatically, and productivity contributions greatly exceed those …