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Media Freedom, Bureaucratic Incentives and the Resource Curse

Egorov, Georgy; Guriev, Sergei; Sonin, Konstantin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

How can a non-democratic ruler provide proper incentives for state bureaucracy? In the absence of competitive elections …

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Bureaucracy as a Mechanism to Generate Information

Novaes, Walter; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Paper argues that the thin line between efficient management practices and inefficient bureaucracy is crossed to curb … managerial agency costs in a multi-layer hierarchy. The model predicts that bureaucracy increases with the frequency of … managerial turnover, and it establishes a link between bureaucracy, incentive schemes, and leverage in a cross-section of firms. …

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Optimal Patronage

Drugov, Mikhail - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We study the design of promotions in an organization where agents belong to groups that advance their cause. Examples and applications include political groups, ethnicities, agents motivated by the work in the public sector and corruption. In an overlapping generations model, juniors compete for...

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Why do within firm-product export prices differ across markets?

Görg, Holger; Halpern, László; Muraközy, Balázs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

In this paper we analyse the relationship between gravity variables and f.o.b. export unit values using Hungarian firm-product-destination data. By taking firm-product level selection into account we show that export unit values increase with distance even for particular firm-product...

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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...

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Taxes and Subsidies in the Transforming Hungarian Economy

Revesz, Tamas; Zalai, Erno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

accords with economic principles. The authors explain how the `state' should be defined in Hungary, discuss the main forms of … research exercise!), further reform of the tax and public expenditure system, and extensive training of Hungary's public …

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Unemployment Insurance and Incentives in Hungary

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

We investigate the effect of changes in unemployment insurance (UI) rules in Hungary on the outflow rate from the UI … register. Existing claims to UI are `grandfathered' in Hungary when UI rules change - new rules are applied only to new claims … unemployed in Hungary to be fairly inelastic to changes in UI benefits. …

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Does Market Liberalization Reduce Gender Discrimination? Econometric Evidence from Hungary, 1986-98

Campos, Nauro F; Jolliffe, Dean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

in Hungary we find that the male/female difference in log wages declined from 0.31 to 0.19 between 1986 and 1998 and that …

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The Informational Value of Job Search Data and the Dynamics of Search Behaviour: Evidence from Hungary

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Labour market analysis places much emphasis on the concept of search. But there is insufficient empirical information on (a) the relationship between reported search and job-finding and (b) how search behaviour changes over a spell without work. We investigate these issues using a sample...

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Living Standards and Incentives in Transition: the Implications of Unemployment Insurance Exhaustion in Hungary

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The single most likely way to leave the unemployment insurance (UI) register in Hungary is not by getting a job but by …

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