This paper investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms …

took part in privatization. Although women enjoyed the same de jure rights as men, they faced a number of informal … success of women prior to privatization as well as the cases, in which only the entrepreneurial success of husbands of these …, we find that during the Serbian privatization women managed to build up on their own entrepreneurial success, which …

security. While some tout privatization as a way to supplant bad governments, others warn that private firms maximize profits … services and the conditions that should make them work. It argues that privatization benefits from capable government units …