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Business environment and dual-track private sector development : China’s experience in two crucial decades
Long, Xiaoning; Xu, Lixin Colin; Yang, Jin - 2020
A void in the literature on the business environment is how it evolves over time. Focusing on China during its crucial two decades of transition (from the early 1990s to the early 2010s), this paper documents how the country's business environment and the characteristics of entrepreneurs...
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Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy : evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Jiang, Yajing; … - 2020
This paper extends the Becker-Tomes model of intergenerational educational mobility to a rural economy characterized by farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a micro-foundation for the widely used linear-in-levels...
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Inequality and group participation : theory and evidence from rural Tanzania
La Ferrara, Eliana - 2000
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Business development and the growth of rural SMEs
Freshwater, David; Garcilazo-Corredera, José Enrique; … - 2019
The paper reviews the role of Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) as drivers of employment and economic growth in rural regions across a number of OECD geographies. It argues that SME creation is especially important for rural economic development and identified lessons for national level...
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Differential patterns between private and public-sector wages in Spain
León, Alba Couceiro de; Dolado, Juan J. - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818499
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In strange company : the puzzle of private investment in state-controlled firms
Pargendler, Mariana; Musacchio, Aldo; Lazzarini, … - 2013
A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of agency and political problems. Less theory and evidence, however, have been generated about the reasons why state-owned enterprises listed in stock markets manage to attract investors to...
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The proper scope of governments when costs are contractible
Dalen, Dag Morten; Moen, Espen R. - 2003
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Public procurement and the private business sector : evidence from firm-level data
Ghossein, Tania; Islam, Asif Mohammed; Saliola, Federica - 2018
engagement in innovation, research and development, international certification, foreign technology adoption, and online …
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All Clear for Takeoff : Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization
Howell, Sabrina T.; Jang, Yeejin; Kim, Hyeik; Weisbach, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Infrastructure assets have undergone substantial privatization in recent decades. How do different types of owners … rather than operational changes. Overall, we find little evidence that privatization alone increases airport performance …; instead, infrastructure funds improve performance both in privatization and subsequent acquisitions from non-PE private firms …
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Revisiting the public-private wage gap in Spain : new evidence and interpretation
León, Alba Couceiro de; Dolado, Juan J. - 2023
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