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Does privatization hurt workers? Lessons from comprehensive manufacturing firm panel data in Hungary, Romania, Russia and Ukraine
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor);  … - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435299
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Does privatization hurt workers? : Lessons from comprehensive manufacturing firm panel data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor);  … - 2006 - Rev.
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003292441
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Wages, layoffs, and privatization : evidence from Ukraine
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor);  … - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003292444
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Employment and wage effects of privatization : evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor);  … - 2008
the negligible consequences of domestic privatization result from effects on scale, productivity, and costs that are large …-improvement effect, and the positive wage outcome from productivity improvement dominating the cost-reduction effect. -- Privatization … transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755531
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Political selection of firms into privatization programs : evidence from Romanian comprehensive data
Szentpéteri, Ádam (contributor);  … - 2008
Exploiting a unique institutional feature of the early Romanian privatization setup, when a group of firms was … explicitly barred from any privatization, we test how politicians select firms into privatization programs. Using a comprehensive … dataset that includes all firms inherited from socialism, we estimate the relation between pre-privatization firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790098
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Political selection of firms into privatization programs : evidence from Romanian comprehensive data
Szentpéteri, Ádám; Telegdy, Álmos - 2009
Exploiting a unique institutional feature of the early Romanian privatization setup, when a group of firms was … explicitly barred from any privatization, we test how politicians select firms into privatization. Using comprehensive data that … includes all firms inherited from socialism, we estimate the relation between pre-privatization firm characteristics the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919610
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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees : conference paper
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - 2013
We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344606
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Innovations, wages and demand for heterogeneous labour : new evidence from a matched employer-employee data-set
Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000
This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318593
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A detailed decomposition of changes in wage inequality in reunified post-transition Germany 1999 - 2006
Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - 2010
In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a decade after reunification. For that purpose, I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1999 - 2006, and implement the decomposition methodologies of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824279
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Voluntary work and wages
Bruno, Bruna; Fiorillo, Damiano - 2014
The effects of voluntary work on earnings have recently been studied for some developed countries such as Canada, France and Austria. This paper extends this line of research to Italy, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) dataset. A double...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527209