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-oriented issue of why a large number of efficient firms disappeared during mass privatization in a booming economy of Montenegro …. Econometrically, we present the first study to look at firms that disappeared during a mass privatization transition, improving upon … remaining in samples when estimating the effects of privatization or other ownership changes. We also show that one needs to …
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We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find that in China, enterprise growth and efficiency is associated with rapid increases in factor inputs, but not correlated with ownership or institutional factors. However, in...
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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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One of the services provided at the Swedish Public Employment Services is job coaching. Since 2012, that service has been organized according to a voucher-based choice system. In 2013, a performance indicator of job coaching providers was made available at an online website. This study examines...
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labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …
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-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common …
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principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the …
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explain this distinct behavior. -- Nominal wage rigidity ; efficiency wages ; manufacturing and services ; Germany …
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The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword...
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This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of … household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First …, but with increments being smaller in the European data. Third, we find that wage risk is procyclical in Germany while it …
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