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How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment

Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We investigate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision-making. We present a model in which career concerned committee members receive private information of different type-dependent accuracy, deliberate and vote. We study three levels of transparency under which career...

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Arbitration and Mediation: An Economic Perspective

Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper deals with the effects that intermediation has on strategic behaviour in negotiations. To this end, we use the tools of game theory to analyse how different institutional settings can provide specific strategic incentives and thereby condition the outcome of negotiations. We...

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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 … profits under mediation coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure …

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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

but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

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What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania containing detailed information from the startup date through 2001. We …

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Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...

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The Changing Demand for Skills: Evidence from the Transition

Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...

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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...

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Labor Market Dynamics in Romania During a Period of Economic Liberalization

Dostie, Benoit; Sahn, David E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, we estimate a model of labor market dynamics among individuals in Romania using panel data for three …

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The Impact of Parents Migration on the Well-being of Children Left Behind: Initial Evidence from Romania

Botezat, Alina; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … instrumental variable and bivariate probit estimates have been performed. Our initial evidence demonstrates that in Romania home …

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