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Making the Politician and the Bureaucrat Deliver - Employment Guarantee in India

Goyal, Ashima - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

, imply that an EGS with good incentive properties has the potential to reverse corruption of the executive, and vitalize …

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Economic Reforms in Indonesia after the 1997/98 Economic Crisis

Soesastro, Hadi; Aswicahyono, Haryo; Narjoko, Dionisius A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

This paper reviews the experience of undertaking reforms in Indonesia after the economic crisis 1997/98, focusing on the reforms made under the last two presidents : Megawati and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The review leads the paper to draw some lessons from the experience. Among other, the role...

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Economic Reforms in Indonesia After The 1997/98 Economic Crisis

Soesastro, Hada; Aswicahyono, Haryo; Narjoko, Dionisius A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

This paper reviews the experience of undertaking reforms in Indonesia after the economic crisis 1997/98, focusing on the reforms made under the last two presidents - Megawati and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The review leads the paper to draw some lessons from the experience. Among other, the role...

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Instability and Incentives for Corruption

Chor, Davin; Quoc-Anh, Do; Campante, Filipe R - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

We investigate the relationship between corruption and political stability, from both theoretical and empirical … between total corruption and stability. On the empirical side, we find a robust U-shaped pattern between country indices of … corruption perception and various measures of incumbent stability, including historically-observed average tenures of chief …

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Wage Differentials, Rate of Return to Education, and Occupational Wage Share in the Labour Market of Pakistan

Hyder, Asma - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

This paper examines the magnitude of public/private wage differentials in Pakistan using data drawn from the 2001-02 Labour Force Survey. Pakistan Labour Force Survey is a nationwide survey containing micro data from all over the country containing demographic and employment information. As in...

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The Lost Decade in the Japanese Labor Market : Laborââ‚¬â„¢s share and Okunââ‚¬â„¢s Law

Wakita, Shigeru - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

The purpose of this study is to reexamine two empirical regularities in the Japanese labor market : the constant labor share and Okun's law. The former law relates to the price of labor in the labor market while the latter is a quantity law; they represent suitable benchmarks for judging the...

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Employee Screening : Theory and Evidence

Huang, Fali; Cappelli, Peter - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

Arguably the fundamental problem faced by employers is how to elicit effort from employees. Most models suggest that employers meet this challenge by monitoring employees carefully to prevent shirking. But there is another option that relies on heterogeneity across employees, and that is to...

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Reverse Mortgages as Retirement Financing Instrument : An Option for ââ‚¬Å“Asset-rich and Cash-poorââ‚¬Â Singaporeans

Chia, Ngee-Choon; Tsui, Albert K C - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

The unique way of financing housing through the mandatory savings system in Singapore has created a class of asset-rich and cash-poor Singaporeans. This paper provides a framework to assess the viability of a reverse mortgage (RM) market so that such instruments may be harnessed as a source of...

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Inefficient Worker Turnover

Jacquet, Nicolas L. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

This paper considers the efficiency properties of risk-neutral workers mobility decisions in an equilibrium model with search frictions, but no search externalities, when the rent accruing to a match is split through bargaining. Matches are ex ante homogeneous and their true productivity is...

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Children and the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Parents in the Philippines

Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Jr. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

This paper demonstrates how family size can be an important contributor to poverty in the Philippines. It examines one of the mechanisms behind this link by focusing on the relation between number of children and the decision to seek a job and parents' wage earnings. It surveys the international...

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