estimate market power (i.e. price-cost margins) and to analyze how these are affected by privatization and increased …

effects of increased import competition are reinforced for foreign owned firms. In contrast, in Bulgaria and Romania …

We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving …

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 …

This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … differences and to assess types of observable 'winners' and 'losers' from privatization. Preprivatization worker-firm matches are … used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 …

after six years. Until recently, Ukraine has had relatively few cases of privatization to foreign investors, and estimates …This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long … panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The longitudinal dimension of …

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 …% in Hungary, and 3% in Ukraine, with some variation across specifications, while in Russia it lowers it about 4 …