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Does It Pay to Be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China
Zhang, Jian; Giles, John T.; Rozelle, Scott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … cadre status, but the magnitudes are not large and provide only a modest incentive to participate in village …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570786
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The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies
Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703447
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Are Oligarchs Productive? Theory and Evidence
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Grygorenko, Yegor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper develops a partial equilibrium model to account for stylized facts about the behavior of oligarchs, politically and economically strong conglomerates in transition and developing countries. The model predicts that oligarchs are more likely than other owners to invest in productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763656
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What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762176
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Do Institutions Have a Greater Effect on Female Entrepreneurs?
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new business start ups by males and females across 44 developed and developing economies between 1998 and 2004. We test four hypotheses; that women are less likely to undertake...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469711
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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) investment/savings and (c) insurance/assurance Using FinScope dataset from South Africa over the period 2003 to 2009,ordered probit, generalized ordered probit and pseudo panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766375
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Loan Regulation and Child Labor in Rural India
Dasgupta, Basab; Zimmermann, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal and informal lending, human capital accumulation, adverse selection, and differentiated risk types. Specifically, we build a model economy that replicates the current outcome with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592166
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Why Use ROSCAs When You Can Use Banks? Theory and Evidence from Ethiopia
Kedir, Abbi M.; Disney, Richard; Dasgupta, Indraneel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
examine usage of both formal and informal institutions across the household income gradient, and provide a theoretical model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149151
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Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers … in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777148
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Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership: Evidence from Urban Chinese Twins
Li, Hongbin; Liu, Pak Wai; Zhang, Junsen; Ma, Ning - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703597