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Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002818
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Poverty and Survival
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765232
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Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats?
Andrews, Dan; Jencks, Christopher; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed nations observed for between 22 and 85 years. After 1960, however, a one percentage point rise in the top decile's income share is associated with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506067
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Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform: Econometric Evidence from Hungary (1986-2004)
Campos, Nauro F.; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
How does the relationship between earnings and schooling change with the introduction of comprehensive economic reform? This paper sheds light on this question using a unique data set and procedure to reduce sample selection bias. Our evidence is from consistently coded, non-retrospective data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822217
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Expropriation with Hukou Change: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Akgüc, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the labor market outcomes of males aged 18-60 obtaining an urban hukou as a result of land expropriation across a number of provinces in China. Using 2008 and 2009 RUMiC data pooling urban, rural and migrant samples, we find that those obtaining an urban hukou have better labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105049
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A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012889
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Crises, What Crises?
Campos, Nauro F.; Hsiao, Cheng; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises that are the most important drivers of structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763747
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Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure: Evidence from Firm Personnel Records
Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and … one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus …, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822644
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Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals
Campos, Nauro F.; Horváth, Roman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries … external liberalization and privatization, concentration of political power drives internal liberalization, and democracy … underpins all three. We find that FDI inflows reduce the probability of privatization reversals, labour strikes increase that of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822778
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Job Satisfaction and Self-Selection into the Public or Private Sector: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Danzer, Natalia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A natural experiment – the massive privatization process in post …-Soviet countries – allows correcting potential self-selection bias. Industry-specific privatization probabilities are assigned to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884142