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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?
Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015
This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376305
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Job satisfaction and self-selection into the public or private sector : evidence from a natural experiment
Danzer, Natalia - 2013
one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A natural experiment - the massive privatization process in post …-Soviet countries - allows correcting potential self-selection bias. Industry-specific privatization probabilities are assigned to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195422
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Does performance information affect job seekers in selecting private providers in voucher-based ALMP programs?
Gerdes, Christer - 2015
One of the services provided at the Swedish Public Employment Services is job coaching. Since 2012, that service has been organized according to a voucher-based choice system. In 2013, a performance indicator of job coaching providers was made available at an online website. This study examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510615
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Employment and wage effects of privatization : evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor);  … - 2008
transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755531
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Privatization and changes in the wage structure : evidence from firm personnel records
Melly, Blaise (contributor); Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor) - 2008
We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and … one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus …, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763070
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Firm ownership and rent sharing
Monteiro, Natália Pimenta; Portela, Miguel; Straume, … - 2010
We analyse – theoretically and empirically – how private versus public ownership of firms affects the degree of rent sharing between firms and their workers. Using a particularly rich linked employer-employee dataset from Portugal, covering a large number of corporate ownership changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959632
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The determinants of asset stripping : theory and evidence from the transition economies
Campos, Nauro (contributor);  … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003299971
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Asset stripping, rule of law and firm survival : the Hoff-Stiglitz model and mass privatization in Montenegro
Koman, Matjaž; Lakičević, Milan; Prašnikar, Janez; … - 2013
-oriented issue of why a large number of efficient firms disappeared during mass privatization in a booming economy of Montenegro …. Econometrically, we present the first study to look at firms that disappeared during a mass privatization transition, improving upon … remaining in samples when estimating the effects of privatization or other ownership changes. We also show that one needs to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226663
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Retained state shareholding in Chinese PLCs : does government ownership reduce corporate value?
Tian, Lihui (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2005
The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China's newly privatized large firms. In this paper, we analyze shareholders as agents that can both harm and benefit companies. We examine the ownership structure of 826 listed corporations and find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002603937
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The births of new private-owned enterprises in an environment of state-owned enterprises
Zhao, Zhong; Liang, Zheng - 2023
The impact of the incumbent state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the births of new private-owned enterprises (POEs) in China is a central concern for the government and society. In this paper, we apply agglomeration theories to distinguish the linkages between SOEs and POEs. Using China's 2008...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014310232