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Restructuring in Transition Economies : Ownership, Competition and Regulation
Commander, Simon John; Dutz, Mark; Stern, Nicholas - 2003
Transition requires the reallocation of resources across activities through closure of inefficient firms and the creation of new firms. It also requires restructuring of existing firms where improvements in performance are feasible. Both processes are closely tied together and are aimed at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191081
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Does privatization hurt workers? Lessons from comprehensive manufacturing firm panel data in Hungary, Romania, Russia and Ukraine
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor);  … - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435299
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Does privatization hurt workers? : Lessons from comprehensive manufacturing firm panel data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor);  … - 2006 - Rev.
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 … Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003292441
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Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Earle, John S.; Brown, J. David; Telegdy, Almos - 2015
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 … Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060272
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Privatization, Competition, and Budget Constraints : Disciplining Enterprises in Russia
Earle, John S.; Estrin, Saul - 1998
We investigate whether privatization, competitive forces, and hardening of budget constraints have yet begun to play … impact of privatization on labor productivity: in our basic specifications, we estimate that a ten percentage point increase … models, the effect is usually small and rarely precisely estimated. We find some evidence that privatization and subsidy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060405
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Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494669
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Does privatization hurt workers? Lessons from comprehensive manufacturing firm panel data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - 2006
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 … Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288007
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On the Laffer Effect in Post-Communist Economies : On the Bases of the Observation of Russian Literature
Papava, Vladimer - 2012
Originally the Laffer Curve was formulated in a macroeconomic context, for which reason it is not applicable to individual taxes, but rather to a certain average aggregate tax. The 'corrections' to the Laffer Curve are based on a factor of time. High importance is the question – in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097347
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Financial policy and stabilization : the case of Russia
Popova, G. V.; Nerovnya, Yu. V.; Terentieva, V. V.; … - In: European research studies 21 (2018) 1, pp. 486-495
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238806
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Competition and Enterprise Performance in Transition Economies : Evidence from a Cross-Country Survey
Carlin, Wendy; Fries, Steven; Schaffer, Mark E.; … - 2015
This paper uses a survey of 3,300 firms in 25 transition countries to shed light on the factors that influence restructuring by firms and their subsequent performance as measured by growth in sales and in sales per employee over a three-year period. We begin by surveying what a decade of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014131025