reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to … privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization …

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 cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports …, privatization is estimated to have positive effects on productivity-enhancing reallocation, but there is less evidence of such …