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The Political Economy of Conscription
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Though in decline recently, military conscription is still a widely used mode of staffing armies. Since not many valid economic, social or military arguments in favor of the draft can be put forward, the question emerges why societies choose to rely on it. In this survey we explain the political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565206
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The Interaction of Tax Exemptions and Individual Tax Reform Preferences
Barbaro, Salvatore; Südekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The individual voting behavior on the abolishment of single income-tax exemptions crucially depends on how strongly agents are affected by other deduction possibilities that are not at stake in the reform plans of the government. The interactions depend (i) on the shape of the tax schedule, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703311
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Job Satisfaction and Self-Selection into the Public or Private Sector: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Danzer, Natalia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A natural experiment – the massive privatization process in post …-Soviet countries – allows correcting potential self-selection bias. Industry-specific privatization probabilities are assigned to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884142
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On the Reversibility of Structural Reforms
Campos, Nauro F; Horváth, Roman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the likelihood of privatization reversals, (b) worsened terms of trade increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279308
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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233777
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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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Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus
Bakanova, Marina; Estrin, Saul; Pelipas, Igor; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761783
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The Financial and Operating Performance of Privatized Firms in Sweden
Tatahi, Motasam; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
privatized firms. First, accounting data prior to and after the privatization are employed to measure the operating performance … are significantly different to private counterparts. Overall results, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762205
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Privatization Discontent and Its Determinants: Evidence from Latin America
Checchi, Daniele; Florio, Massimo; Carrera, Jorge - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this … countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a privatization dataset on the same countries, including sectoral … variables as controls.. Our main finding is that disagreement with privatization is more likely when the respondent is poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703277
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Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure: Evidence from Firm Personnel Records
Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and … one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus …, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822644