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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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;...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002

Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues – including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...

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Executive compensation, firm performance, and corporate governance in China: evidence from firms listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2005

This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive compensation and ownership structure, we find for...

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