; transition ; Hungary ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …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 …

; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine ; transition …We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe … employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we estimate that majority privatization raises MFP about 28% in Romania, 22 …

This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long … produces a productivity advantage of about 40 percent in 2004–2005. -- productivity ; privatization ; selection bias ; foreign …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard …. -- productivity ; reallocation ; industry dynamics ; entry ; exit ; creative destruction ; reform ; transition ; Georgia ; Hungary … decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are …

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 …

result from effects on scale, productivity, and costs that are large but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small …We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … scale-expansion effect that dominates the productivity-improvement effect, and the positive wage outcome from a productivity …

We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3 … in the West (labor supply movements, product demand shifts, technical change) or the transition-specific accounts … institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …

heterogeneity during this transition period, with a corresponding rise in excess job reallocation. Unlike data for Soviet Russia in … 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. …