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Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment
Dunsch, Felipe A.; Evans, David K.; Eze-Ajoku, Ezinne; … - 2017
of a health care management consulting intervention. One set of PHCs received a detailed improvement plan and nine months …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744679
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Is Privatization Working in Ukraine? New Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Data, 1989-2013
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015
This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large size and length of the time series in the data permit us to track the privatization process and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307462
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Asset Stripping, Rule of Law and Firm Survival: The Hoff-Stiglitz Model and Mass Privatization in Montenegro
Koman, Matjaž; Lakičević, Milan; Prašnikar, Janez; … - 2013
We provide the first test of the Hoff and Stiglitz (2004) model predicting whether and under what conditions mass privatizations are accompanied by asset stripping. In addition to directly testing the theory, we also tackle an important policy-oriented issue of why a large number of efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328959
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Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999
Earle, John S.; Spicer, Andrew; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004
the 1990s. Existing research on wage arrears most often examines this practice as a means of flexible wage adjustment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261776
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The Changing Demand for Skills : Evidence from the Transition
Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - 2004
Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261836
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Contract Violations, Neighborhood Effects, and Wage Arrears in Russia
Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Earle, John S. - 2004
We present a model of neighborhood effects in wage payment delays. Positive feedback arises because each employer?s arrears affect the late payment costs faced by other firms in the same local labor market, resulting in a strategic complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261947
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Do Markets Favor Women?s Human Capital More than Planners?
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262135
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Equilibrium Wage Arrears: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Institutional Lock-In
Earle, John S.; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - 2000
We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262404
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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262532
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Worker Flows, Job Flows and Firm Wage Policies: An Analysis of Slovenia
Haltiwanger, John; Vodopivec, Milan - 2002
Like many transition economies, Slovenia is undergoing profound changes in the workings of the labor market with … market for Slovenia using unique longitudinal matched employer-employee data that permits measurement of employment … flows and job flows in a comprehensive and integrated manner. We find a high pace of job flows in Slovenia especially for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262681