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Corruption in the Health Sector : Evidence from Unofficial Consultation Fees in Bangladesh

Abdallah, Wahid - 2015

We study the incidence and extent of bribes paid to the doctors in the public health facilities which are cleverly identified using a nationally representative survey. The survey asks households about the fees paid to public doctors, not about the bribe, which makes it less prone to reporting...

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What are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations Around the Developing World?

McKenzie, David J. - 2015

Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We undertake a critical review of these studies with the...

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Performance Pay, Sorting, and Outsourcing

Henneberger, Fred; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Ziegler, Alexandre - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. Whenmeasurement costs differ among firms, those with a measurement cost advantage choose toimplement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the level and variabilityof compensation are higher at these firms...

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Job Losses, Outsourcing and Relocation:Empirical Evidence Using Microdata

Artís, Manuel; Ramos, Raúl; Suriñach Caralt, Jordi - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using microdata, we analyse the determinants of firm relocation and outsourcing decisionsand their effects on firms …

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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring: The Role ofExternal Economies and Firm Heterogeneity

Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

industry. Also, the initialadvantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock ineffect …

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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing andWage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections

Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determinedby a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage …

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Equilibrium Unemployment with OutsourcingUnder Labour Market Imperfections

Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue thatthe wage elasticity of labour … demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing,which is importantly a result consistent with existing …

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An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011

Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs … through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets … oligopolistic context. We find that while an outsourcing tax favors domestic workers by causing firms to switch to a greater use of …

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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes

Schwarz, Christian - 2010

We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...

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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression Under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - 2010

-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …

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