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 and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …

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 and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …

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 and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …

associated rather with increased wages and employment. … been to redress the sharp drops in employment and rises in unemployment in a way that fosters the creation of productive …

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 …

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 and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …

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 … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in …

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 …

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 …

.16 and 0.34, respectively), and controlling for employment size further reduces them (to 0.07 and 0.28). We also exploit the … unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …