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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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Language and labor market success
Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2014
destination language skills are highly rewarded by wage returns and higher employment probabilities and act as the medium of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418954
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The role of unemployment and job change when estimating the returns to migration
Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2020
Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294811
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382070
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Who are the microenterprise owners? : evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto
De Mel, Suresh (contributor); McKenzie, David J. (contributor) - 2008
Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719625
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Are women more credit constrained? : experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns
Mel, Suresh de (contributor); McKenzie, David J. (contributor) - 2008
In a recent randomized experiment we found mean returns to capital of between 5 and 6 percent per month in Sri Lankan … microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and … indeed were not different from zero for women. In this paper, we explore different explanations for the lower returns among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760258