; employment ; wages ; foreign ownership ; Hungary ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine … 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 …

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 … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

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 … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small …

wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small …

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 … Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated …

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 … large, positive, but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of both types in Russia and Ukraine. The …