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The Efficiency Effects of Privatisation and Liberalisation : The Telecommunications Industry Under State and Private Ownership.

Foreman-Peck, J. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1991

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The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel data evidence from South Africa

Teal, Francis; Kerr, Andrew - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

sector wage setting and trade unions, in determining earnings differences across different types of employment. To do this we …

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Transparency, Recruitment and Retention in the Public Sector

Leaver, Clare; Albano, Gian Luigi - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

This paper argues that government should pay greater heed to recruitment and retention when designing performance measurement systems for bureaucracies. In the face of pervasive rigidities in public sector pay, internal performance measurement rewards quitters and scars stayers and therefore...

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Institutions and Wage Determination: a Multi-Country Approach

Nunziata, Luca - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

We present an empirical analysis of the determinants of labour cost in OECD countries, with particular reference to the impact of labour market institutions from 1960 to 1994. The main contribution of the paper is to show that labour market regulations can explain a large part of labour cost...

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Unemployment Equilibria and Input Prices: Theory and Evidence from the United States.

Carruth, a.; Hooker, N.; Oswald, A. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997

The paper develops an efficiency-wage model where input prices affect the equlibrium rate of unemployment. We show that …

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Minorities in Rural China: Poorer but Inherently Happier?

Knight, John; Shi, Li; Chang, Yuan - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

This is a pioneering study of the determinants of the subjective well-being of ethnic minority people in rural China …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159002

Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country

Knight, John; Gunatilaka, Ramani - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

determinants of subjective well-being. Less attention has been paid to its normative implications. Taking China as a case study …

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Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms

Knight, John; Ding, Sai; Guariglia, Alessandra - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

, industries and regions, we find that corporate investment in China has become increasingly efficient over time. However, based … good explanation for China's overinvestment, especially for the private sector, while in the sector, overinvestment is …

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Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth

Knight, John; Ding, Sai; Guariglia, Alessandra - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

This paper attempts to address a puzzle in China's investment pattern: despite high aggregate investment and remarkable …

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Memory and Anticipation: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function

Knight, John; Gunatilaka, Ramani - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

appropriate data set for China. The tests favour the early theories. Implications are drawn. …

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