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Is privatization working in Ukraine? : new estimates from comprehensive manufacturing firm data, 1989 - 2013

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309155

Privatization and productivity in Romanian industry : evidence from a comprehensive enterprise panel

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402871

Worker flows, job flows and firm wage policies : an analysis of Slowenia

Haltiwanger, John C. (contributor); … - 2002

Like many transition economies, Slovenia is undergoing profound changes in the workings of the labor market with potentially greater flexibility in terms of both wage and employment adjustment. We investigate the impact of the changing labor market for Slovenia using unique longitudinal matched...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001701408

Economic reforms and productivity-enhancing reallocation in the post-Soviet transition

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Innovations, wages and demand for heterogeneous labour : new evidence from a matched employer-employee data-set

Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318593

College expansion and the marginal returns to education : evidence from Russia

Belskaya, Olga; Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Posso, Christian - 2014

This paper evaluates whether the expansion of higher education is economically worthwhile based on a recent surge in the number of campuses and college graduates in Russia. Our empirical strategy relies on the marginal treatment effect method in both normal and semi‐parametric versions, and...

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Worker flows and wage dynamics: estimating wage growth without composition effects

Carrasco, Raquel; García Peréz, José Ignacio; … - 2020

Wage dynamics is closely intertwined with job flows. However, composition effects associated to the different sizes and characteristics of workers entering/ exiting into/from employment that may blur the "true" underlying wage growth, are not typically accounted for. In this paper, we take these...

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The impact of selection into the labor force on the gender wage gap

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - 2021

We study the impact of selection bias on the gender pay gap, focusing on post 1981 period. Previous work on this question has found divergent results. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and several identification strategies, we find that, after adjusting for selection, there were...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517770

Do foreign owners favor short-term profit? : evidence from Germany

Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2014

Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local managers of the German subsidiary are not sent from the foreign parent company. Moreover, the...

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Gender pay gap patterns in domestic and foreign-owned firms

Magda, Iga; Sałach, Katarzyna - 2019

We investigate differences in gender wage gaps between foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms in Poland, a country that has experienced large FDI inflows over the past three decades. In line with the findings of several other studies, we show that according to standard estimates of adjusted...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012027692

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