transition economy labor markets. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia … 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 …

controls. Our preferred random growth estimates imply positive multifactor productivity effects of 15 percent in Romania, 8 … (18-35 percent) in all countries. Positive domestic effects appear immediately in Hungary, Romania, and Ukraine and …

Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania …

a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania containing detailed information from the startup date through 2001. We …

productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permits us …

This paper provides an assessment of the contribution to privatization in Romania of the 1995-96 Mass Privatization …

Long-term unemployment in Romania has grown in both absolute and relative terms in the last few years, leading to …

used to describe the post-privatization ownership structure, and to estimate the effect of Romania's diverse privatization …

result from effects on scale, productivity, and costs that are large but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small …

models imply that majority privatization raises MFP about 15% in Romania, 8% in Hungary, and 2% in Ukraine, while in Russia …. Positive domestic effects appear within a year in Hungary, Romania, and Ukraine and continue growing thereafter, but take 5 …