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

wages. With the estimated coefficients we simulate the effect of privatization on non-privatizable and privatizable firms … the privatizable firms. The analysis does not support the hypothesis that wages played an important role in privatization …Exploiting a unique institutional feature of the early Romanian privatization setup, when a group of firms was …

Privatisierung und Deregulierung für die Freien Berufe und staatlich gebundenen Freien Berufe unter ökonomischen Aspekten. Nach … begrifflichen Abgrenzungen werden zentrale Aspekte der Privatisierung und Deregulierung in der ökonomischen Theorie behandelt und … policy in Germany the concrete privatization and deregulation approaches for the professions - public bounded or not - are …

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 …

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 … negative effect in Russia, and they provide some evidence of positive foreign effects on both wages and employment in all four …

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

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 … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers …