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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

effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find … is driven by the impact of bureaucracy on the post-privatization business environment, with better institutional support … privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and …

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Turf Wars

Herrera, Helios; Reuben, Ernesto; Ting, Michael M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Turf wars commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production incentives ex post affect team formation decisions ex ante. In the game, one agent decides whether to...

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Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service

Dal Bó, Ernesto; Finan, Frederico S.; Rossi, Martín A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly across recruitment sites, and job offers were subsequently randomized. Screening relied on exams designed to measure applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and...

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Asabiyya: Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of...

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Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...

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Effect of Perceptions and Behaviour on Access to and Use of Financial Service: Evidence from South Africa

Annim, Samuel; Arun, Thankom Gopinath; Kostov, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b … behaviour is greater than financial perception when making decisions on the take-up and use of investment financial services. It …

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Usage of Financial Services in South Africa: Perceptions Matter

Kostov, Philip; Arun, Thankom Gopinath; Annim, Samuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This study investigates the access to and usage of financial services in South Africa. Financial services are categorised in three types namely; general accounts and services, investment/savings and insurance/assurance. Taking into account the interactions between usage of different types of...

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Does Private Tutoring Increase Students' Academic Performance? Evidence from Turkey

Berberoglu, Giray; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates the effectiveness of private tutoring in Turkey. The authors introduce their study by providing some background information on the two major national examinations and three different kinds of tutoring. They then describe how they aimed to analyse whether attending private...

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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 …

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On the Reversibility of Structural Reforms

Campos, Nauro F; Horváth, Roman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the likelihood of privatization reversals, (b) worsened terms of trade increase …

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