We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm …

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm …

within less than five years. We examine whether the privatization authority followed its mandate to privatize competitive … firms using initial labor productivity to indicate firms’ competitiveness. Our results highlight that firms with higher … baseline productivity are more likely to be privatized, yield higher sales prices, are more often acquired by West German …

within less than five years. We examine whether the privatization authority followed its mandate to privatize competitive … firms using initial labor productivity to indicate firms' competitiveness. Our results highlight that firms with higher … baseline productivity are more likely to be privatized, yield higher sales prices, are more often acquired by West German …

Productivity in Russia has fallen steadily over the past 15 years. This paper explores micro-level data to understand … the contribution of individual firms to aggregate productivity. Overall, firm-level data corroborate the decline in … aggregate productivity and a widening productivity gap against several European countries. They also show that the gap between …

firms, along with traditional variation in productivity. The model predicts that the outcome of the bargaining game between … the firm productivity, but falls with an increase of the market power. These effects are roughly of the same size in …

the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. The …, these cost savings can be very large. The estimates of productivity effects are also positive, albeit rather small. …

We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co …

This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions … of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this …

This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions … of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this …