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Corruption and Anticorruption in the Czech Republic

Lizal, Lubomir; Kocenda, Evzen - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2000

It is widely acknowledged that corruption has negative impact on economy and society. Transition process in the Central … and Eastern Europe (CEE) uncovered dormant possibilities for corruption that consequently required appropriate steps to be … taken against. We attempted to document the state of corruption in the Czech Republic and the measures introduced to fight …

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The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence From the Transition Economies

Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...

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Shadow Economy, Rent-Seeking Activities and the Perils of Reinforcement of the Rule of Law

Vostroknutova, Ekaterina - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

An economy is considered where a possibility to seek rents (a particular case of this activity is corruption) exists … low corruption the direct law enforcement is bene- ficial for growth, and reduces the shadow sector. However, in the … highly corrupt economy, combating the shadow economy reduces output and increases corruption, while combating corruption …

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Changing Incentives of the Chinese Bureaucracy

Li, David D. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

It has been increasingly recognized that the Chinese goverm-nent's newly acquired enthusiasm for economic development is a major factor explaining the relative success of China's transition from socialism. This paper argues that the changed behavior of the Chinese government is an outcome of a...

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Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms

Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2014

We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions...

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CONTRACT VIOLATIONS, NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS, AND WAGE ARREARS IN RUSSIA

Earle, John S.; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

We present a model of neighborhood effects in wage payment delays. Positive feedback arises because each employer’s arrears affect the late payment costs faced by other firms in the same local labor market, resulting in a strategic complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on...

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Crime Distribution & Victim Behavior During a Crime Wave

Tella, Rafael Di; Galiani, Sebastian; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006

The study of how crime affects different income groups faces several difficulties. The first is that crime-avoiding activities vary across income groups. Thus, a lower victimization rate in one group may not reflect a lower burden of crime, but rather a higher investment in avoiding crime. A...

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Bridging the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Europe

Afandi, Elvin; Kermani, Majid - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2014

There is no gender difference between success in establishing a business once both males and females have the same preference to self-employment and attempts towards establishing a new business. However, the gender gap tends to be huge when it comes to individual preferences and attempts to...

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Is women's ownership of land a panacea in developing countries? Evidence from land-owning farm households in Malawi

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2013

Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males,...

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The Effects of Market Liberalization on the Relative Earnings of Chinese Women

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

, enterprise age, and workers' methods of finding employment as proxies for the extent of market liberalization. We find both the …

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