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Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel
Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763510
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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
privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002818
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Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America
Campos, Nauro F.; Kinoshita, Yuko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper investigates the role of structural reforms – privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization – as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761719
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700927
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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 - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy’s bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566702
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Corruption and the Shadow Economy: An Empirical Analysis
Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a crosssection of 120 countries and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761625
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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World: What Do We Really Know?
Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
with a labor market regulation are the driving forces of the shadow economy. Furthermore, the results show that the shadow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703821
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MIMIC Models, Cointegration and Error Correction: An Application to the French Shadow Economy
Buehn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The analysis of economic loss attributed to the shadow economy has attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy makers. Often, multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) models are applied to time series data estimating the size and development of the shadow economy for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762169
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Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market
Kleiner, Morris M.; Krueger, Alan B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839260
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Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence
Schiantarelli, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a … of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822371