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 analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about …

Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaft, Warschau, untersucht, wie die Unternehmen in Polen und in Ostdeutschland die … zufriedenstellend bewertet. Dabei stufen die Unternehmen in Polen Angebote zur Qualifizierung der Arbeitskräfte öfter als die in … Unternehmen bestehen. Von den in die Untersuchung einbezogenen Standortmerkmalen werden in beiden Gebieten zumeist die gleichen …

Critics of privatization argue that poor labor force restructuring is a key concern and that governments should … establish better retrenchment programs. Using new data from arandom sample of 400 companies in the world, we test competing … owners after privatization. Our results show that adverse selection plagues retrenchment programs carried out by governments …

This paper investigates whether privatization in emerging economies has a significant indirect effect on local stock … market development through the resolution of political risk. We argue that a sustained privatization program represents a … regulatory and private property rights. We present evidence suggesting that progress in privatization is indeed correlated with …

The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various … aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, we provide some theoretical reasoning why … privatization is useful as well as profitable for an economy and empirically present the extent of privatization in Austria and …

Betreiber der Infrastruktur. Im Falle vertikaler Trennung ergibt sich, dass die Privatisierung in Mehr-Produkt-Unternehmen der … Privatisierung in Ein-Produkt-Unternehmen wohlfahrtsmäßig überlegen ist. … liberalization and their privatization which can be complete or partial such that upstream production is still run by an SOE. We show …