We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … negative effect in Russia, and they provide some evidence of positive foreign effects on both wages and employment in all four …

The challenge for labour market policy in the new member states and other transition economies of Eastern Europe has … associated rather with increased wages and employment. …

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 … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers …

This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 … percent and cuts the layoff probability in half. Outside investor ownership reduces separations but leaves wages unaffected …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 … percent and cuts the layoff probability in half. Outside investor ownership reduces separations but leaves wages unaffected …