John S. Earle, Senior Economist  
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Recent publications
  • "Did Mass Privatisation Really Increase Post-Communist Mortality?" (with S. Gehlbach). Lancet, Vol. 375(9712), 372, 2010.

  • “Complementarity and Custom in Wage Contract Violation” (with K.S. Peter). Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. XCI(4), 832-849, November 2009.

  • “Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness” (with D. Brown and S. Gehlbach). American Political Science Review, Vol. 103(2), 264-283. May 2009.

  • “Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization” (with D. Brown and A. Telegdy). Forthcoming in Economic Journal.

  • “The Normalization of Deviant Organizational Practices: Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999” (with A. Spicer and K.S. Peter). Forthcoming in Academy of Management Journal.

  • “Creating Productive Jobs in East European Transition Economies: A Synthesis of Firm-Level Studies” (with D. Brown). National Institute Economic Review, Vol. 204(1), 108-125, April 2008.

  • “Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials with LEED from Hungary, 1986-2003” (with A. Telegdy). NBER Working Paper No. 12997 published in Analysis of Firms and Employees: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (F. Andersson, S. Bender, J. Lane, K. Shaw, and T. von Wachter, eds.), NBER and University of Chicago, 2008.

  • “Developing Graduate Economics Education from Scratch: The Case of the CEU,” in Scaling Up the Success of Capacity Building in Economic Education and Research (B. Pleskovic, ed.), World Bank, 2007.

  • “Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia” (with D. Brown et al.). Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 48(3), 435-457, September 2006.

  • “Information Technology, Organizational Form, and Transition to the Market,” (with Ugo Pagano and Maria Lesi), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 60(4), 471-489, August 2006.

  • “Wages, Layoffs, and Privatization: Evidence from Ukraine” (with D. Brown and V. Vakhitov), Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 34(2), 272-294, June 2006.

  • “Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition” (with D. Brown), Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 48(2), 229-251, June 2006. Working paper preprinted (in English and Ukrainian) in Labour Market Reforms and Economic Growth in Ukraine (L. Handrich, I. Burakovsky, and O. Betliy, eds.), Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2006.

  • “The Productivity Effects of Privatization: Longitudinal Estimates from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine,” (with D. Brown and Á. Telegdy), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 114(1), 61-99, February 2006.

  • “What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania,” (with D. Brown and D. Lup), Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 54(1), 33-70, October 2005.

  • “The Wage Effects of Schooling under Socialism and in Transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950-2000,” (with D. Andren and D. Sapatoru), Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 33(2), 300-323, June 2005.

  • "Ownership Concentration and Corporate Performance on the Budapest Stock Exchange: Do Too Many Cooks Spoil the Goulash?” (with C. Kucsera and Á. Telegdy), Corporate Governance, Vol. 13(2), 254-264, March 2005.

  • "Privatization, Competition, and Budget Constraints: Disciplining Enterprises in Russia" (with S. Estrin), Economics of Planning, Vol. 36(1), 1-22, 2003.

  • "The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants" (with D. Brown), Economics of Transition, Vol. 11(2), 221-252, June 2003.

  • "A Spoonful of Sugar: Privatization and Popular Support for Reform in the Czech Republic" (with S. Gehlbach), Economics and Politics, Vol. 15(1), 1-32, March 2003.
    Click here for the prepublication Institute Staff Working Paper.

  • "Privatization Methods and Productivity Effects in Romanian Industrial Enterprises," (with Á. Telegdy), Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 30(4), 657-682, December 2002.
    Click here for the prepublication Institute Staff Working Paper.

  • "How Late to Pay? Understanding Wage Arrears in Russia," (with K. Sabirianova), Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 20(3), 661-707, July 2002.
    Click here for the prepublication Institute Staff Working Paper.

  • "Corporate Control: A Study of Firms on the Bucharest Stock Exchange" (with Á. Telegdy, C. Kucsera, and V. Kaznovsky), Eastern European Economics, Vol. 40(3), 6-27, May/June 2002.

  • "Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?" (with D. Brown), Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 30(1), 96-133, March 2002.
    See theSocial Science Research Network for the prepublication working paper.

  • "Microeconometric Studies of Russian Labor Markets: An Introduction to the Symposium" (with H. Lehmann), Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 30(1), 91-95, March 2002.

  • "Worker Training in a Restructuring Economy: Evidence from the Russian Transition" (with M. Berger and K. Sabirianova), Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 20, 159-190, 2001.
    See the Social Science Research Network for the prepublication working paper.

  • "Measuring Defense Conversion in Russian Industry" (with I. Komarov), Defence and Peace Economics, Vol. 12(2), 103-144, March/April 2001.
    See the Social Science Research Network for the prepublication working paper.

  • "Privatization and the Structure of Enterprise Ownership" (with S. Estrin), in B. Granville and P. Oppenheimer (editors), Russia's Post-Communist Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
    See the Social Science Research Network for the prepublication working paper.

  • "Business Start-ups or Disguised Unemployment? Evidence on the Nature of Self-Employment from Transition Economies" (with Z. Sakova), Labour Economics, Vol. 7, Issue 5, September 2000, 575-601.
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