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Privatisation in developing countries : what are the lessons of recent experience?
Estrin, Saul; Pelletier, Adeline - 2016
This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571943
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Allocation of labour in urban West Africa : implication for development policies
Dimova, Ralitza (contributor);  … - 2008
With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrolment through the prism of allocation of labour and returns to skills across the formal and informal sectors. We find that people...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726796
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Altruism, cooperation, and efficiency : agricultural production in polygynous households
Akresh, Richard; Chen, Joyce J.; Moore, Charity Troyer - 2011
Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to receive in a non-cooperative equilibrium. To test this, we examine agricultural productivity in polygynous households in West Africa. We find that cooperation is greater -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529187
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Mobile internet adoption in West Africa
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Ochoa, Rogelio Granguillhome - 2021
Mobile broadband internet is the main technology through which individuals access the internet in developing countries. Understanding the barriers to broadband adoption is thus a priority in designing policies aiming to expand access and close the digital divide across socioeconomic groups and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012440258
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Regional migration and wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Méango, Romuald; Rapoport, … - 2018
We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). We exploit unique data from a unified labour force household survey which covers natives and migrants in the seven economic capitals of the region. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959449
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The puzzle of educated unemployment in West Africa
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Méango, Romuald - 2022
Many developing countries exhibit a puzzling pattern given their scarce human capital: unemployment rates increase with education. We develop and estimate a model where educated unemployment arises from heterogeneous workers participating in a frictional labour market with three sectors (public,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013455095
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Is privatization working in Ukraine? : new estimates from comprehensive manufacturing firm data, 1989 - 2013
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015
data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells … majority privatized versus state-owned firms. The gap increases with time since privatization, reaching about 15-17% five years … after privatization. It also increases with calendar time although recent privatizations are associated with smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309155
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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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Outsourcing public services : contractibility, cost, and quality
Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Jordahl, Henrik; Josephson, Jens - 2019
We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022711
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Are rushed privatizations substandard? : analyzing firm-level privatization under fiscal pressure
Hagemejer, Jan; Švejnar, Jan; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018
Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed privatization has negative efficiency, scale and employment effects relative to … non-rush privatization. The negative effect of rushed privatization on the scale of operations and employment is even … stronger than its negative effect on efficiency. Our results suggest that when policy makers resort to rushed privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011859206