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The Determinants of Rural Migrants' Employment Choice in China : Results from a Joint Estimation

Nahm, Daehoon - 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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The Births of New Private-Owned Enterprises in an Environment of State-Owned Enterprises

Zhao, Zhong; Liang, Zheng - 2023

China is a central concern for the government and society. In this paper, we apply agglomeration theories to distinguish the … linkages between SOEs and POEs. Using China's 2008 economic census, the 2007 Input-Output Table, and the 2005 population mini …

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Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms : New Evidence

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2021

an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …

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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - 2021

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of Chinese SOEs covering the period 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital...

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Public, Private or Both? Analysing Factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists

Cheng, Terence Chai - 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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Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure : Evidence from Firm Personnel Records

Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021

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...

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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization : Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2021

We use longitudinal methods and universal panel data on 30,000 initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage...

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Evaluating the Effect of Ownership Status on Hospital Quality : The Key Role of Innovative Procedures

Gobillon, Laurent - 2012

Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status...

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Internal Finance and Growth : Microeconometric Evidence on Chinese Firms

Guariglia, Alessandra; Li, Xiaoxuan; Song, Lina - 2021

Does the availability of internal finance constrain firm growth? Or does it foster it? To answer these questions, we use a panel of 407,096 Chinese firms over the period 2000-2005. We estimate dynamic assets growth equations augmented with cash flow, and find that the growth of state owned...

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The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies : An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities

Owolabi, Oluwarotimi Ayokunnu - 2011

The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing external finance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutions to minimize the underlying agency costs of lending. An analysis of recent BEEPS data from fifteen...

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