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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318782
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Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Cypriot Labour Market : Distastes or Uncertainty?
Drydakis, Nick - 2012
Sexual orientation and employment bias is examined in Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus: Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca, Paphos …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104066
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Dann warens nur noch vier Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktivenArbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch?
Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik ist im Zuge der Hartz-Reformen grundsätzlich neustrukturiert und systematisch evaluiert worden. Die vorliegenden Evaluationsberichte derersten drei Hartz-Gesetze belegen nun vielfach, welche Instrumente der aktivenArbeitsmarktpolitik sich durch ihre Wirksamkeit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863254
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How Do Households Discount Over Centuries? Evidence from Singapore's Private Housing Market
Fesselmeyer, Eric - 2016
We examine Singapore's fairly homogeneous private-housing market and show that new apartments on historical multi-century leases trade at a non-zero discount relative to property owned in perpetuity. Descriptive regressions indicate that new apartments with 825 to 986 years of tenure remaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995038
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The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
Ferranna, Maddalena; Robinson, Lisa A.; Cadarette, Daniel; … - 2022
In 2021, the Biden Administration issued mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for U.S. federal employees and contractors and for some healthcare and private sector workers. Although these mandates have been subject to legal challenges and some have been halted or delayed, rigorous appraisal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078739
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106946
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071449
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778446
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780018
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012805