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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233830
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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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Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes
Baumgartner, Hans J.; Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
the results of this analysis, we conduct an efficiency analysis, i.e., we estimate whether the Federal Employment Agency …
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The Optimality and Overuse of Labour in Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises
Masso, Jaan; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
issue of labour market flexibility in transition countries by studying the optimality and efficiency of labour usage among … by value-added and capital stock. Speed of adjustment and labour use optimality and efficiency show much greater … the efficiency of labour usage. On average there is shortage of labour compared to firms’ own optimal level, while over …
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