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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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Asset stripping, rule of law and firm survival : the Hoff-Stiglitz model and mass privatization in Montenegro

Koman, Matjaž; Lakičević, Milan; Prašnikar, Janez; … - 2013

-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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European funds and firm performance : evidence from a natural experiment

Gabriel, José Mesquita; Santos, João Pereira dos; … - 2023

This paper analyses the impact of European Union (EU) funds on the performance of private firms. In particular, we examine a quasi-natural experiment consisting of a redrawing of administrative areas that expanded regional eligibility and led to a sudden increase in accessibility to EU grants...

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Public-private employment choice, wage differentials and gender in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Ownership and wages : estimating public-private and foreign domestic differentials using LEED from Hungary, 1986 - 2003

Earle, John S. (contributor); Telegdy, Álmos (contributor) - 2007

Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficulties distinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. This paper estimates these ownership differentials using linked employer-employee data (LEED) from Hungary containing 1.35mln...

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The determinants of rural migrants' employment choice in China : results from a joint estimation

Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of employment choice of rural migrant workers across state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and various subtypes of non-state owned enterprises (non-SOEs) by taking into account unobservable characteristics that link the choice to migrate with the choice of...

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Ethnic discrimination in China's internet job board labor market

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2012

We conduct a large-scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively Mongolian,...

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Public, private or both? : analysing factors influencing the labour supply of medical specialists

Cheng, Terence Chai; Kalb, Guyonne; Scott, Anthony - 2013

This paper investigates the factors influencing the allocation of time between public and private sectors by medical specialists. A discrete choice structural labour supply model is estimated, where specialists choose from a set of job packages that are characterised by the number of working...

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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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Eco-innovation and employment: a task-based analysis

Elliott, Robert J. R.; Kuai, Wenjing; Maddison, David; … - 2021

This paper provides some of the first evidence of the relationship between eco-innovation and employment. Adopting a O*NET based task approach, in a study of the Dutch firms, we show that eco-innovation has no impact on overall employment. However, compared to non- eco-innovators there is an...

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