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Is early start a better start? : evaluating California State University's Early Start remediation policy

Kurlaender, Michal; Lusher, Lester; Case, Matthew - 2019

Remediation has long been a costly way to address the misalignment between K-12 and higher education. In 2011, the California State University (CSU), the nation's largest public four-year university system, enacted Early Start, requiring students needing remediation to enroll in such courses in...

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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Privatizing disability insurance

Seibold, Arthur; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2022

Public disability insurance (DI) programs in many countries face pressure to reduce their generosity in order to remain sustainable. In this paper, we investigate the welfare effects of giving a larger role to private insurance markets in the face of public DI cuts. Exploiting a unique reform...

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What role did management practices play in SME growth post-recession?

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature on SME growth by analysing longitudinal...

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The impact of management practices on SME performance

Forth, John; Bryson, Alex - 2018

We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use...

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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 …

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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 …

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