in the concept of solidarity economy. The analysis is based on three cases of farmers pioneering the CSA concept in … Romania by offering organic vegetable to their local contracted consumers in the Western part of the country. All three CSA … groups were initiated by a local NGO. Our empirical results shed light on CSA partnerships in Romania. With regard to …

but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

well-functioning economy, and particularly large productivity contributions tend to reflect previous neglect more than …

large, positive, but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of both types in Russia and Ukraine. The … negative effect in Russia, and they provide some evidence of positive foreign effects on both wages and employment in all four …

Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …

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 …. The positive effects emerge within a year in Hungary, Romania, and Ukraine and continue to grow thereafter, but are still …

-functioning economy, and particularly large productivity contributions tend to reflect previous neglect more than current virtue. …

Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated … result from effects on scale, productivity, and costs that are large but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small … effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment outcome under foreign ownership results from a substantial …