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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …

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How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso

Dauphin, Anyck; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

. We conclude that the household efficiency does yield empirically falsifiable restrictions despite being scarcely rejected …

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Does Performance Information Affect Job Seekers in Selecting Private Providers in Voucher-Based ALMP Programs?

Gerdes, Christer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …

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Does Secondary School Tracking Affect Performance? Evidence from IALS

Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

There is substantial cross-country variation in secondary school design, with some countries tracking students into different ability schools very early, and other countries with little or no tracking at all. Does tracking length affects school performance, as measured by standardized test...

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On-The-Job Search and Sorting

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We characterize the equilibrium of a search model with a continuum of job and worker types, wage bargaining, free entry of vacancies and on-the-job search. The decentralized economy with monopsonistic wage setting yields too many vacancies and hence too low unemployment compared to first best....

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Should We Extend the Role of Private Social Expenditure?

Pearson, Mark; Martin, John P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

, there is some reason hope that private provision might promote microeconomic efficiency and services which are more … choice and innovation. Second, however, efficiency gains have often been limited. This is due to a number of inter …

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An Analysis of Hospital Efficiency and Productivity Growth Using the Luenberger Productivity Indicator

Barros, Carlos Pestana; Menezes, António Gomes de; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …

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Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency

Gautier, Pieter; Holzner, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise because workers typically do not know where other workers apply to and firms do not know which candidates other firms consider. The first coordination friction affects network formation, while the second...

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The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives

Dostie, Benoit; Jayaraman, Rajshri - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

improving efficiency. …

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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

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