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Cronyism
Martins, Pedro S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Politicians can use the public sector to give jobs to cronies, at the expense of the efficiency of those organisations and general welfare. Motivated by a simple model of cronyism that predicts spikes in appointments to state-owned firms near elections, we regress 1980-2008 monthly hirings...
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Does Corruption Promote Emigration? An Empirical Examination
Cooray, Arusha; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium … and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate … levels of educational attainment, however, increases at initial levels of corruption and then decreases beyond a certain …
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Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …
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Corruption and the Shadow Economy: A Structural Equation Model Approach
Buehn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or … with two latent variables – extracts information on various dimensions of corruption and the shadow economy to contribute … and corruption. The results show that the shadow economy influences corruption more than corruption influences the shadow …
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …
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Jobless Growth through Creative Destruction: Ireland’s Industrial Development Path 1972–2003
Walsh, Patrick Paul; Li, Qi; Whelan, Ciara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We document the nature of structural changes in employment to understand “jobless” growth in Irish Manufacturing in the aftermath of EEC/EU membership, 1972-2003. By 1972, forty years of protectionism and fifteen years of export promotion induced the coexistence of large exporting plants...
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High-Performance Management Practices and Employee Outcomes in Denmark
Cristini, Annalisa; Eriksson, Tor; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
High-performance work practices are frequently considered to have positive effects on corporate performance, but what do they do for employees? After assessing the correlation between organizational innovation and firm performance, this article investigates whether high-involvement work...
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The Economics of First-Contract Mediation
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto efficient and proves immune to the insider-outsider problem of...
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Collective Bargaining under Non-Binding Contracts
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We introduce collective bargaining in a static framework where the firm and its risk-neutral employees negotiate over wages in a non-binding contract setting. Our main result is the equivalence between the non-binding collective equilibrium wage-employment contract and the equilibrium contract...
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Educational Diversity and Knowledge Transfers via Inter-Firm Labor Mobility
Marino, Marianna; Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This article contributes to the literature on knowledge transfer via labor mobility by providing new evidence regarding the role of educational diversity in knowledge transfer. In tracing worker flows between firms in Denmark over the period 1995-2005, we find that knowledge carried by workers...
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