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Employment and wage effects of privatization: evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268760
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The financial and operating performance of privatized firms in Sweden
Tatahi, Motasam; Heshmati, Almas - 2009
privatized firms. First, accounting data prior to and after the privatization are employed to measure the operating performance … are significantly different to private counterparts. Overall results, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269001
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Firm ownership and rent sharing
Monteiro, Natália Pimenta; Portela, Miguel; Straume, … - 2010
We analyse - theoretically and empirically - how private versus public ownership of firms affects the degree of rent sharing between firms and their workers. Using a particularly rich linked employer-employee dataset from Portugal, covering a large number of corporate ownership changes across a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269766
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Transition on the shop floor : the restructuring of a weaving mill, Hungary 1988-97
Köllîo, János - 2003
While a variety of studies analysed the benign effects of privatisation on firm performance under post-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows a weaving mill from 1998 to 1997 on its way of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274456
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Wages, employment, and capital in capitalist and worker-owned firms
Pencavel, John H.; Pistaferri, Luigi; Schivardi, Fabiano - 2006
Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a matched employer-worker panel data set from Italy, the market economy with the greatest incidence of worker-owned and worker-managed firms. These differences are related to orthodox...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276248
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Wages, Employment, and Capital in Capitalist and Worker-Owned Firms
Pencavel, John; Pistaferri, Luigi; Schivardi, Fabiano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a matched employer-worker panel data set from Italy, the market economy with the greatest incidence of worker-owned and worker-managed firms. These differences are related to orthodox...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233888
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Privatization and changes in the wage structure: evidence from firm personnel records
Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - 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 while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269136
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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 … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262532
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Enterprise restructuring in Belarus
Bakanova, Marina; Estrin, Saul; Pelipas, Igor; … - 2006
We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267876
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Institutions and economic performance: What can be explained?
Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko - 2010
Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274658