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The rise of domestic outsourcing and the evolution of the German wage structure
Goldschmidt, Deborah; Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2015
The nature of the relationship between employers and employees has been changing over the last decades, with firms increasingly relying on contractors, temp agencies and franchises rather than hiring employees directly. We investigate the impact of this transformation on the wage structure by...
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Bias and careers: evidence from the aid effectiveness literature
Doucouliagos, Chris; Hinz, Thomas; Zigova, Katarina - 2020
We investigate whether estimates of the effect of aid on growth are influenced by authors' careers. We collect data on the careers of 190 authors and apply meta-regression analysis to investigate the impact of authors' age and tenure status on the reported magnitude of aid effectiveness, and on...
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Where does profit sharing work best? : a meta-analysis on the role of unions, culture, and values
Doucouliagos, Chris; Laroche, Patrice; Kruse, Douglas L.; … - 2018
In this article we re-examine the relationship between group-based profit sharing and productivity. Our meta-regression analysis of 313 estimates from 56 studies controls for publication selection and misspecification biases and investigates the impact of firm level unionisation and national...
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FDI impact on firm performance in enlarged Europe : evidence from a meta-regression analysis
Bruno, Randolph; Cipollina, Maria - 2014
This paper combines, explains and summarizes recent findings from the empirical literature focusing on the FDI's effect on firms' performances by collecting all the relevant firm level quantitative studies to run a regression of regressions focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there...
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The importance of being local? : administrative decentralization and human development
Chaudhary, Latika; Lakshmi Iyer - 2024
We examine the human development consequences of transferring responsibility for public service provision to local governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that devolution of the responsibility for health functions from...
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Outsourcing public services : contractibility, cost, and quality
Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Jordahl, Henrik; Josephson, Jens - 2019
costs and quality, for services without severe contracting problems. The picture is more mixed for services with tougher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022711
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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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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
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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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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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