We develop a theory of endogenous regimes transitions (with a focus on democratic consolidation), which emphasizes the …

Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to hikes in real pay. Efficiency wage theory hypothesizes … efficiency benefit of corporatism. For laborers in manufacturing, we find that wage hikes result in productivity gains. Managers …

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 …

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and … potential endogeneity and omitted variables biases. -- Privatization ; financial reform ; trade liberalization ; foreign direct …

Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this … countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a privatization dataset on the same countries, including sectoral … variables as controls. Our main finding is that disagreement with privatization is more likely when the respondent is poor …