Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Problem of Social Order -- 1. Institutions and Social Order: Sociological and Economic Approaches -- 2. Self-Governance and Social Order: A More Political Approach -- 3. Benign Neglect:...

Kathrin Jurkats Studie befasst sich mit der Privatisierung der Wirtschaft während der postsozialistischen Transformation in Serbien. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung stehen Arbeiter und Arbeiterinnen zweier Betriebe in der vojvodinischen Stadt Zrenjanin. Die Autorin untersucht, wie diese den...

This paper investigates the impact of ownership structure on the productivity performance of Russian industrial enterprises. The analysis compares the effects of several types of new private owners - insiders (managers and other employees) and outsiders (individual and institutional investors) -...

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine....

We use longitudinal methods and universal panel data on 30,000 initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four 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...

Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to implement policies effectively and provide a supportive...