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How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia

Svejnar, Jan; Domadenik, Polona; Praanikar, Janez - 2021

studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross …

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Why is There a Spike in the Job Finding Rate at Benefit Exhaustion?

Boone, Jan - 2010

Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a spike in the job finding rate shortly before benefits are exhausted. Current theories explain this spike from workers' behavior. We present a theoretical model in which also the nature of the job matters....

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Long-Term Responses to Large Minimum Wage Shocks : Sub-Minimum and Super-Minimum Workers in Slovenia

Laporsek, Suzana - 2019

This study examines long-term effects of a minimum wage increase using an innovative identification strategy based on categorising workers according to their predicted marginal revenue products. It finds that the increase had a large and persistent disemployment effects on low-paid workers and...

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The Effect of Unemployment Benefit Generosity on Unemployment Duration : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Slovenia

Vodopivec, Matija - 2015

The paper analyses the effects of a 2011 increase in the unemployment benefit replacement rate on the job-finding rate of Slovenian benefit recipients. Using registry data on the universe of Slovenian unemployment benefit recipients, we exploit legislative changes that selectively increased the...

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Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits Does Not Affect the Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

van Ours, Jan C.; Vodopivec, Milan - 2021

-unemployment jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that …

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Levelling the Playing Field : The Effects of Slovenia's 2013 Labour Market Reform

Vodopivec, Matija - 2016

We examine the effects of a 2013 labour market reform in Slovenia which made permanent contracts less restrictive and … fixed-term contracts more restrictive. Using matched employer-employee database covering the entirety of Slovenia's labour …

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On the Reversibility of Structural Reforms

Campos, Nauro F. - 2012

evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the likelihood of privatization reversals, (b) worsened terms of trade increase …

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Asset Stripping, Rule of Law and Firm Survival : The Hoff-Stiglitz Model and Mass Privatization in Montenegro

Koman, Matjaz - 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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Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy

Bennett, John - 2007

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...

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Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus

Bakanova, Marina - 2006

We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition …

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