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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 …

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Norms, Culture and Local Infrastructure: Evidence from a Decentralised Economy

Pal, Sarmistha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Culture as reflected in social and religious norms may be pivotal to social organization in a decentralised economy where local authorities are responsible for the provision of local public goods. We distinguish between individualist and collectivist cultures to argue that collectivist culture...

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Consistency in Organization (updated)

Schlicht, Ekkehart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Internal organization relies heavily on psychological consistency requirements. This thought has been emphasized in modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The perspective sheds new light on several topics in the theory of the firm, like the boundaries of...

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Better Means More: Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...

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Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation

Schlicht, Ekkehart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...

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Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships

Francesconi, Marco; Muthoo, Abhinay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties’ valuations of the goods produced, and the degree of impurity of these goods. When the degree of...

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Good and Bad Institutions: Is the Debate Over? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence from the Textile Industry

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certain institutions like restrictive labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency, whereas (b) good business environment which is considered...

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Public and Private Sector Jobs, Unreported Income and Consumption Gap in India: Evidence from Micro-Data

Kar, Saibal; Roy, Poulomi; Saha, Sarani - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate empirically the wage gap as well as consumption expenditure parity between public and private sector workers. It tests the hypothesis that despite a lower level of public sector...

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Informal Sector and Corruption: An Empirical Investigation for India

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic activities is one of the main reasons behind high...

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Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing

Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Given the intensive and ideologically charged debate over the use of private contractors for publicly funded services, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of economic efficiency. Starting out from different...

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