economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those … for the divergent mobility hypothesis in scattered years in the cases of Mexico and Venezuela, and no support at all in … the case of Argentina. Rather, earnings mobility is most frequently convergent or neutral in all three countries. As for …

, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation. We …

equal to nearly 20 per cent of income. For Israel, Mexico, and Argentina the costs had been materially lower, but still in …

ideal: Carlos Salinas de Gortari, (Mexico 1988-1994) and Carlos Menem (Argentina 1989-1999). Neopopulism is based on an …

describing how these policies affected the most important macroeconomic indexes, with special emphasis on Argentina and Mexico …

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 …