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Do Markets Favor Women?s Human Capital More than Planners?

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004

Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...

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Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy

Terrell, Katherine; Svejnar, Jan; Münich, Daniel - 2000

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …

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Employment and wage effects of privatization: evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2008

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 …

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Wages, layoffs, and privatization: Evidence from Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Vakhitov, Vladimir - 2006

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 …

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Does privatization hurt workers? Lessons from comprehensive manufacturing firm panel data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - 2006

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 …

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Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2005

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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.

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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 … negative effect in Russia, and they provide some evidence of positive foreign effects on both wages and employment in all four … dominates the efficiency effect. -- privatization ; employment ; wages ; foreign ownership ; Hungary ; Romania ; Russia …

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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

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Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Earle, John S.; Brown, J. David; Telegdy, Almos - 2015

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