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Identifying vulnerable groups in the Kyrgyz labour market: some implications for the national poverty reduction strategy
Bernabe, Sabine; Kolev, Alexandre - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working … in Kyrgyzstan, who cumulated a high risk of being unemployed, of remaining longer in unemployment, of being discouraged …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125996
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The effects of decentralisation on public investment: evidence and four lessons from Bolivia and Colombia
Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralisation on a number of important policy goals. This paper examines the cases of Bolivia and Colombia to explore decentralisation’s effects on government responsiveness and poverty-orientation. I first summarize economic data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928596
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The division of labor, coordination, and the demand for information processing
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
document the relationship between complexity and the employment of clerks using an early information technology (IT) revolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745003
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Corruption and firm behavior
Sequeira, Sandra; Djankov, Simeon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper investigates how corruption affects firrm behavior. Firms can engage in two types of corruption when seeking a public service: cost-reducing "collusive" corruption and cost increasing "coercive" corruption. Using an original and unusually rich dataset on bribe payments at ports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745127
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Decentralization and local government in Bolivia : an overview from the bottom up
Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralization on a number of important policy goals. This paper examines the remarkable case of Bolivia to explore decentralization's effects on government responsiveness and poverty-orientation. I first summarize econometric results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745204
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Displacing corruption: evidence from a tariff liberalization program
Sequeira, Sandra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper investigates how corrupt public officials and private agents adjust to policy reforms that change opportunities for bribery deals to take place. I exploit an exogenously determined tariff liberalization program that altered opportunities to extract bribes through a particular method...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745888
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The division of labor, coordination, and the demand for information processing
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
complexity and the employment of clerks using an early information technology (IT) revolution that took place around 1900, when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746398
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Voting behaviour and public employment in Nazi Germany
Maurer, Stephan E. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
rise to power in 1933. Using data on public employment in the armed forces, public administrations and related professions … find that cities with higher National Socialist vote shares experienced a relative increase in public employment: for every … additional percentage point in the vote share, the number of public employment jobs increased by around 3.5 percent. When …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183327
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Tariffs and corruption: evidence from a tariff liberalization program
Sequeira, Sandra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper investigates how corrupt public officials and firms adjust to policy reforms that change opportunities for bribery deals to take place. I take advantage of an exogenously determined tariff liberalization program that altered opportunities to extract bribes through a particular method...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071385
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Courts of law and unforeseen contingencies
Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Postlewaite, Andrew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
We study a contracting model with unforeseen contingencies in which the court is an active player. Ex-ante, the contracting parties cannot include the risky unforeseen contingencies in the contract they draw up. Ex-post the court observes whether an unforeseen contingency occurred, and decides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928636