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

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 …

dominates the efficiency effect. -- privatization ; employment ; wages ; foreign ownership ; Hungary ; Romania ; Russia … large, positive, but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of both types in Russia and Ukraine. The …We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to …

Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated … effect that dominates the effect on costreduction. -- privatization ; employment ; wages ; foreign ownership ; Hungary … ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …

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

that wages played an important role in privatization decisions. These results do not change qualitatively if the …Exploiting a unique institutional feature of the early Romanian privatization setup, when a group of firms was … explicitly barred from any privatization, we test how politicians select firms into privatization programs. Using a comprehensive …

gains had to be sacrificed. -- Privatization ; Government objectives; Firm Efficiency ; Employment ; Wages ; Romania … wages. With the estimated coefficients we simulate the effect of privatization on non-privatizable and privatizable firms … privatizable firms. The analysis does not support the hypothesis that wages played an important role in privatization decisions …