Conventional wisdom and prevailing economic theory hold that the new owners of a privatized firm will cut jobs and … employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …

Conventional wisdom and prevailing economic theory hold that the new owners of a privatized firm will cut jobs and … employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …

.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 … about 25 percent, or 3 jobs at the mean. Including loan amount, we find little or no impact of loan receipt per se, but an …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …

to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of employment and unemployment. Our calculations show … alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and … alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …

loan effects on job creation and firm survival across firm age and size groups. The number of jobs created per million …