We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in … Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated …

gender, education, or experience. -- privatization ; layoffs ; wages ; Ukraine …This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … differences and to assess types of observable “winners” and “losers” from privatization. Preprivatization worker-firm matches are …

This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the … models imply that majority privatization raises MFP about 15% in Romania, 8% in Hungary, and 2% in Ukraine, while in Russia … years after privatization to emerge in Russia. -- privatization ; productivity ; foreign ownership ; random growth model …

This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long … after six years. Until recently, Ukraine has had relatively few cases of privatization to foreign investors, and estimates … produces a productivity advantage of about 40 percent in 2004–2005. -- productivity ; privatization ; selection bias ; foreign …

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe … number of explanations for "when privatization works". -- privatization ; productivity ; foreign ownership ; Hungary … employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we estimate that majority privatization raises MFP about 28% in Romania, 22 …

occupation) and firms (size, industry, and productivity), suggesting ownership type is systematically selected along these …

analysis shows that the estimated correlation of privatization and mortality in country-level data is not robust to recomputing … the mass-privatization measure, to assuming a short lag for economic policies to affect mortality, and to controlling for … evidence that privatization increased mortality during the early 1990s. Finally, we reanalyze the relationship between …

institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …

We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving … the 1980s, Ukrainian job reallocation in the 1990s was clearly productivity-enhancing, both within and across industries … to which it has contributed to aggregate productivity growth. …

privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity … privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel re-search design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional …