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Parental Job Loss and Children’s Health : Ten Years after the Massive Layoff of the SOEs’ Workers in China
Liu, Hong - 2011
Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122166
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072167
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Firm Ownership and Rent Sharing
Monteiro, Natália P. - 2010
leading to less job security, implying stronger efficiency wage effects …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318130
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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization : Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - 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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An Ounce of Prevention for a Pound of Cure : Efficiency of Community-Based Healthcare
Bancalari, Antonella; Bernal, Pedro; Celhay, Pablo; … - 2023
We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345561
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Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants
Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2023
In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers have monopsony power over undocumented workers because...
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Efficient Targeting in Childhood Interventions
Paul, Alexander - 2020
Many targeted childhood interventions such as the Perry Preschool Project select eligible children based on a risk score. The variables entering the risk score and their corresponding weights are usually chosen ad hoc and are unlikely to be optimal. This paper develops a simple economic model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840456
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(In)Efficiency of Employment Offices : A Study on Welfare Benefits Determination – Is There a Trade-Off between Time Saving Case Management and Quality of Decisions?
Dyballa, Katharina - 2020
This study investigates the efficiency of the process of benefit determination for welfare recipients in Germany. A … stochastic frontier analysis is used to compute (in)efficiency of Jobcenter (employment offices) in terms of average processing … considered by analyzing the share of upheld opposition because of misapplication of the laws. No effect of the (in)efficiency …
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