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timing and definition of employment, the roles of split-ups and mergers, and the relative magnitudes of rehiring and new … intensity, and labor productivity, but only weakly to job and worker turnover. Little evidence is found that firms' employment …
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Even experienced, profit-maximizing managers in Russia may conduct less restructuring than otherwise, since the economy appears to be in an equilibrium in which each firm releases unproductive workers but retains excess productive workers because other firms do. If firms release their excess...
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definition of employment and the role of reorganizations, and they contain rich information on firm characteristics. We find that … ownership with less. There is little evidence that the average firm's employment adjustments have become more responsive to …
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timing and definition of employment, the roles of split-ups and mergers, and the relative magnitudes of rehiring and new … intensity, and labor productivity, but only weakly to job and worker turnover. Little evidence is found that firms' employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320431
.S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list … years of employment history and other variables. The results imply positive average effects on loan recipient employment of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884334
.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on … firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history, and with instrumental variables capturing ease of access to SBA … constraints impede small business growth prior to loan receipt. We also investigate the variation in estimated employment effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307476
We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … longitudinal data on manufacturing firms, our fixed effect and random trend models consistently fail to support workers' fears of … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288007
.S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list … years of employment history and other variables. The results imply positive average effects on loan recipient employment of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319511
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 … countries. The negligible employment impact of domestic privatization results from effects on efficiency and scale that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005448733
We use longitudinal methods and universal panel data on 30,000 initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233777