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 … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The …

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 … workers' fears, our fixed effect and random trend estimates imply little effect of domestic privatization, except for a slight …

% in Hungary, and 3% in Ukraine, with some variation across specifications, while in Russia it lowers it about 4 … ambiguous even after 5 years in Russia. Pre-privatization MFP exceeds that of firms remaining state-owned in all countries …We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe …

Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated … effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment outcome under foreign ownership results from a substantial …We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to …

models imply that majority privatization raises MFP about 15% in Romania, 8% in Hungary, and 2% in Ukraine, while in Russia … years after privatization to emerge in Russia. …This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the …

in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an … paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports … input index with annual industrial census data from 1985 to 2001, we find that Soviet Russia displayed low reallocation …

We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving … heterogeneity during this transition period, with a corresponding rise in excess job reallocation. Unlike data for Soviet Russia in …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel re-search design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional … privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity …