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The Shrinking Advantage of Market Potential
Brülhart, Marius - 2019
How does a country's economic geography evolve along the development path? This paper documents recent employment growth in 18,961 regions in eight of the world's main economies. Overall, market potential is losing importance, and local density is gaining importance, as correlates of local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480470
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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution
Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2009
Employment at multinational enterprises (MNEs) responds to wages at the extensive margin, when an MNE enters a foreign location, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates. We present an MNE model and conditions for parametric and nonparametric identification. Prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463871
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Measuring the Impacts of FDI in Central and Eastern Europe
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2006
The impacts of inward FDI on host countries are frequently studied using balance-of-payments based measures of flows and stocks. These are unreliable for the purpose because, while theories of the effects of investment are based on FDI production and employment in the host country, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465851
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On the Speed of Transition Central Europe
Aghion, Philippe - 1994
Transition in Central Europe is four years old. State firms which dominated the economy are struggling with market forces. A new private sector quickly emerged and has taken hold. Unemployment, which did not exist, is high and still increasing. Will this process of transition accelerate, or slow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474189
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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity
Bender, Stefan - 2016
Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are mediated through employee decision-making and...
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Restructuring
Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000112367
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Privatizing social security
Feldstein, Martin S. (contributor); Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000645265
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Privatization and nationalization cycles
Chang, Roberto - 2009
"This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies. We discuss available … evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization, review the existing literature, and present … of the observed cycles of privatization and nationalization, and is consistent with a variety of observed phenomena …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394323
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The creation of the rule of law and the legitimacy of property rights : the political and economic consequences of a corrupt privatization
Hoff, Karla Ruth - 2005
investigate the demand for the rule of law in post-Communist economies after privatization under the assumption that theft is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522421
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Risk aspects of investment-based social security reform
Campbell, John Y. (contributor);  … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001476940