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Employment and wage effects of privatization : evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor); … - 2008

We use longitudinal methods and universal panel data on 30,000 initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four 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...

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Privatization and changes in the wage structure : evidence from firm personnel records

Melly, Blaise (contributor); Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor) - 2008

We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization...

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Enterprise restructuring in Belarus

Bakanova, Marina; Estrin, Saul; Pelipasʹ, Igorʹ V.; … - 2006

We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition economy in which reform and market-orientated institutional development has been limited. We hypothesize that private ownership will enhance company performance, measured in a...

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Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy

Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...

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The financial and operating performance of privatized firms in Sweden

Tatahi, Motasam (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2009

This paper examines the change in operating and financial performance of Swedish firms that were either partly or fully privatized during the period of 1989-2007. Two different methods are used to empirically investigate the performance of privatized firms. First, accounting data prior to and...

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Firm ownership and rent sharing

Monteiro, Natália Pimenta; Portela, Miguel; Straume, … - 2010

explained by private firms being more profit oriented than public ones. However, the result is consistent with privatisation …

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Right to buy... time to move? : investigating the effect of the right to buy on moving behaviour in the UK

Ham, Maarten van; Williamson, Lee; Feijten, Peteke; … - 2010

One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine rigorously whether the Right to Buy legislation did indeed 'free-up' those in social housing who bought...

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Employment effects of privatisation and foreign acquisition of Chinese state-owned enterprises

Gong, Yundan (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor); … - 2006

This paper investigates the effects of domestic privatisation or foreign acquisition of Chinese State Owned Enterprises … that domestic privatisation leads to contemporaneous reductions in employment growth compared to firms that did not undergo … post acquisition period than non-acquired SOEs. -- Privatisation ; foreign acquisition ; employment growth ; difference-in-differences …

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The determinants of asset stripping : theory and evidence from the transition economies

Campos, Nauro (contributor); … - 2005

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...

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Does performance information affect job seekers in selecting private providers in voucher-based ALMP programs?

Gerdes, Christer - 2015

One of the services provided at the Swedish Public Employment Services is job coaching. Since 2012, that service has been organized according to a voucher-based choice system. In 2013, a performance indicator of job coaching providers was made available at an online website. This study examines...

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