We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … workers' fears, our fixed effect and random trend estimates imply little effect of domestic privatization, except for a slight … countries. The negligible employment impact of domestic privatization results from effects on efficiency and scale that are …

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 …

This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a … long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large size and length of the time series in the … data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells …

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 … panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The longitudinal dimension of …

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 … used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 …

We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … workers’ fears, our fixed effect and random trend estimates imply little effect of domestic privatization, except for a slight … countries. The negligible employment impact of domestic privatization results from effects on efficiency and scale that are …

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 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 … used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 …

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 …