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Do IMF Programs Stimulate Private Sector Investment?
Bomprezzi, Pietro - 2022
This paper provides new evidence on the role of IMF programs in stimulating private sector investments. Using detailed firm-level data on tangible fixed assets and a local projection methodology, we first estimate the dynamic response of firm investments to the approval of an IMF arrangement. We...
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The Elasticity of Substitution Between Skilled and Unskilled Labor in Developing Countries: A Directed Technical Change Perspective
Behar, Alberto - 2023
We develop a model of endogenous skill-biased technical change in developing countries. The endogenous response to a rise in skill supply counters the traditional substitution effect and dampens its role in reducing wage inequality. The model re-enforces consensus estimates of the elasticity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059177
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Where Does the Public Sector End and the Private Sector Begin?
Lienert, Ian - 2009
The boundary between the public and private sectors can be defined on the basis of ownership of institutional units. Nonmarket government-owned entities and corporations that are owned or controlled by government units belong to the public sector. "Economic ownership" is more important than...
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Corruption and Technology-Induced Private Sector Development.
Yehoue, Etienne B - 2006
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What's Driving Private Investment in Malaysia? Aggregate Trends and Firm-Level Evidence.
Guimarães, Roberto Pereira - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. SOME STYLIZED FACTS -- III. DETERMINANTS OF PRIVATE INVESTMENT -- IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- APPENDIX: A CANONICAL MODEL OF CORPORATE INVESTMENT -- References.
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Public-Private Wage Differentials and Interactions Across Countries and Time
Abdallah, Chadi - 2023
We compile a novel database on average public and private sector wages and public-private wage differentials, which we use to analyze how average public-private wage differentials vary according to gender and skill level as well as over time. We further examine the dynamic relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059582
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Does Public-Sector Employment Fully Crowd Out Private-Sector Employment?
Behar, Alberto - 2013
We quantify the extent to which public-sector employment crowds out private-sector employment using specially assembled datasets for a large cross-section of developing and advanced countries, and discuss the implications for countries in the Middle East, North Africa, Caucasus and Central Asia....
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How Do State-Owned Enterprises Adjust During Downturns: Evidence from Iranian Manufacturing Firms
Ebadi, Ebad - 2022
This paper investigates the role that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) played during periods of economic sanctions against Iran. Using difference-in-difference techniques and exploiting survey data on the manufacturing sector, our analysis shows that the sanctions reduced revenues, profits, and...
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India's State-Owned Enterprises
Agarwal, Ruchir - 2022
India's recently announced privatization strategy can facilitate a change in the composition of the public sector … description of the SOE sector in India, consider different criteria which can inform the scope and rationale for privatization. It … also highlights takeaways from international experience with privatization, highlights the importance of improved …
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Local governments’ fiscal balance, privatization, and banking sector reform in transition countries
Crivelli, Ernesto - 2012
liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances … over 19 years to address a central question of fact: Did privatization help to promote local governments' fiscal discipline …? The answer is clearly 'no' for privatization considered in isolation. However, privatization and subnational f …
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