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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; Telegdy, Almos - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2005
We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … negative effect in Russia, and they provide some evidence of positive foreign effects on both wages and employment in all four … countries. The negligible employment impact of domestic privatization results from effects on efficiency and scale that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005157524
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Where to work?: The role of the household in explaining gender differences in labour market outcomes
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2006
With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274520
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Where to work? Gender differences in labor market outcomes during economic crisis
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John - 2011
In Central and Eastern European women started the process of transition from socialist to market economies with a status quo that differed markedly from women in both developed western and traditional developing economies. They enjoyed an equal or higher level of education than men, virtually no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281891
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Where to Work? Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes during Economic Crisis
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John - Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) - 2011
In Central and Eastern European women started the process of transition from socialist to market economies with a status quo that differed markedly from women in both de-veloped western and traditional developing economies. They enjoyed an equal or higher level of education than men, virtually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025182
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Where to Work? The Role of the Household in Explaining Gender Differences in Labour Market Outcomes
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761916
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Is Rural Non Farm Sector the Last Resort for Employment in India?
Kumar, Manoj - 2008
on continuous (steady) decline and rural employment base has accordingly witnessed a modest degree of diversification. In … this paper it has been attempted to review the determinants of rural non-farm employment i.e. the factors determining the … into more productive sectors. These statistics reveal that the country is facing huge challenges of productive employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219450
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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings : workers and policymakers may fear that privatization leads to job losses and wage cuts, but what's the empirical evidence?
Earle, John S. - 2014
employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421952
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Employment and wages in transition : panel evidence from Poland
Christev, Atanas; FitzRoy, Felix - Lehrstuhl für Finanzwissenschaft, Wirtschafts- und … - 1999
, suggesting labor hoarding. Dec1ining sales, however, significantly reduce employment and privatization (or anticipation thereof …New survey data for a panel of Polish firms is used to estimate employment and wage adjustments under various forms of … in the transition literature: wages have little effect on dynamic labor demand and the firm-size wage effect is confirmed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004012
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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 … negative effect in Russia, and they provide some evidence of positive foreign effects on both wages and employment in all four … 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 … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288007