transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … workers' fears, our fixed effect and random trend estimates imply little effect of domestic privatization, except for a slight … countries. The negligible employment impact of domestic privatization results from effects on efficiency and scale that are …

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe … employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we estimate that majority privatization raises MFP about 28% in Romania, 22 …%. Privatization to foreign rather than domestic investors has a larger impact (about 44%) and is much more consistent across countries …

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 …

This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the … models imply that majority privatization raises MFP about 15% in Romania, 8% in Hungary, and 2% in Ukraine, while in Russia … it lowers it 3%. Privatization to foreign rather than domestic investors has a larger impact, 18-35%, in all countries …

The debate on the privatization of enterprises in Eastern Europe often presumes that enterprises are still controlled … adopt a myopic attitude, and neglect the long-run profitability of their firms. Centrally organized privatization programs …. However, such privatization programs challenge the present position of managers, workers, and local bureaucrats. The insiders …