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Contracting Out Mandatory Counselling and Training for Long-Term Unemployed : Private For-Profit or Non-Profit, or Keep it Public?
Cockx, Bart - 2015
This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...
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Employment Effects of Privatisation and Foreign Acquisition of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; Maioli, Sara - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of domestic privatisation or foreign acquisition of Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference-in-differences in order to identify the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317362
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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development : Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2021
privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not … catching up to the (world) efficiency standard given by foreign-owned firms; and the distance of the Russian firms to the …
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Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis
Hijzen, Alexander - 2010
This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-level data for three...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship : Blessing or Curse?
Danakol, Seçil - 2013
This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic entrepreneurial entry. We use a micro‐panel of more than two thousand individuals disaggregated by industry in seventy countries including both developed and developing economies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071742
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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research : With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas - 2008
This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773083
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Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2014
We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend– also known as Petty's law – is not...
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International Specialization and the Return to Capital
Batista, Catia - 2010
How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2000. We confirm the Heckscher-Ohlin prediction that, with...
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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Contribute to Productivity Growth?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - 2021
Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output growth, far less attention has been paid to its...
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Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages
Afonso, António - 2010
We examine the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee in OECD countries. The growth of public sector wages and of public sector employment positively affects the growth of private sector wages. Moreover, total factor productivity, the unemployment rate and the degree...
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