transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in … Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … the negligible consequences of domestic privatization result from effects on scale, productivity, and costs that are large … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity …

,000 manufacturing enterprises, we find that the productivity of firms in the regions most supportive of Viktor Yushchenko increased by … context of weak institutions can have substantial distributional effects that are reflected in economic productivity …