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 …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … and less corruption when bureaucracies are large. -- Privatization ; bureaucracy ; economic reform ; Russia … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization …

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find … with ownership or institutional factors. However, in Russia, enterprise growth is not associated with increases in factor …