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How successful are banking sector reforms in emerging market economies? : evidence from impact of monetary policy on levels and structures of firm debt in India
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Kutan, Ali Mustafa; Majumdar, Sudipa - 2016
Many emerging markets have undertaken significant financial sector reforms especially in their banking sectors that have been quite critical for both financial development and real economic activity. In this paper, we investigate the success of banking reforms in India where significant banking...
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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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Before it gets better : the short-term employment costs of regulatory reforms
Bassanini, Andrea; Cingano, Federico - 2017
on cyclical conditions: the employment cost of deregulation is higher in economic downturns, negligible in good times …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732021
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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018
set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment … rate. Labour market deregulation, proxied by the employment protection legislation index, is detrimental to unemployment in …
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Firm size distortions and the productivity distribution : evidence from France
Garicano, Luis; Lelarge, Claire; Van Reenen, John - 2013
framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to …
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The impact of regulation on innovation
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021
endogenous growth model with size-contingent regulations. We apply this to population administrative firm panel data from France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431121
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Estimating employment dynamics across occupations and sectors of industry
Cörvers, Frank; Dupuy, Arnaud - 2009
In this paper, we estimate the demand for workers by sector and occupation using system dynamic OLS techniques to account for the employment dynamics dependence across occupations and sectors of industry. The short run dynamics are decomposed into intra and intersectoral dynamics. We find that...
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The evolution of gender gaps in industrialized countries
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016
Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This paper documents long-run trends in female employment, working hours and relative wages for a wide...
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The determinants of part-time work in EU countries : empirical investigations with macro-panel data
Buddelmeyer, Hielke (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper aims to identify the contribution of the business cycle and structural factors to the development of part-time employment in the EU-15 countries, through the exploitation of both cross-sectional and time series variations over the past two decades. Key results include that the...
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Industries, mega firms, and increasing inequality
Haltiwanger, John C.; Hyatt, Henry R.; Spletzer, James - 2022
Most of the rise in overall earnings inequality is accounted for by rising between-industry dispersion from about ten percent of 4-digit NAICS industries. These thirty industries are in the tails of the earnings distribution, and are clustered especially in high-paying high-tech and low-paying...
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