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 …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment …

alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and …Studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied on standard, publicly available employment and … unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to …

dominates the efficiency effect. -- privatization ; employment ; wages ; foreign ownership ; Hungary ; Romania ; Russia …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 …

and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. -- employment ; unemployment ; Estonia ; Romania ; Russia …This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment …

We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers … result from effects on scale, productivity, and costs that are large but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small …