impact of regional labour markets. By using a panel of 329 Polish largest firms during the period 1997-2001, we find evidence … in state firms are highly responsive to regional labour market conditions, while firms in other sectors are not. Rent …

data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells … majority privatized versus state-owned firms. The gap increases with time since privatization, reaching about 15-17% five years … after privatization. It also increases with calendar time although recent privatizations are associated with smaller …

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …

Mongolia's mass privatization program was implanted in a country that lacked the very basic institutions of capitalism …

-scale privatization in Russia. The analysis shows that although employee buyouts have helped to reduce unemployment and prevent major …

privatization, but also that most respondents prefer to leave firms in private hands. We test three theories of support for reform … by examining who wants to revise privatization and why. First, consistent with a "utilitarian" view, respondents with … poor human capital and few assets support revising privatization in all institutional settings and hold this view because …