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The determinants of asset stripping: theory and evidence from the transition economies
Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2005
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267582
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Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs : Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?
Tian, Lihui; Estrin, Saul - 2005
The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China?s newly privatized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262209
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Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs: Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?
Tian, Lihui; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China’s newly privatized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822452
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The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies
Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703447
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Economic returns to Communist Party membership: evidence from urban Chinese twins
Li, Hongbin; Liu, Pak Wai; Zhang, Junsen; Ma, Ning - 2006
China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268047
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Does it pay to be a cadre? Estimating the returns to being a local official in rural China
Zhang, Jian; Giles, John T.; Rozelle, Scott - 2012
-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … who is a cadre. Given the increasing returns to non-agricultural employment since China's economic reforms began, it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283955
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Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership: Evidence from Urban Chinese Twins
Li, Hongbin; Liu, Pak Wai; Zhang, Junsen; Ma, Ning - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703597
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Post-merger Restructuring of the Labor Force
Gehrke, Britta; Maug, Ernst; Obernberger, Stefan; … - 2021
We study the restructuring of the labor force after mergers and acquisitions. Overall restructuring is large. Net employment of targets declines by more than half within two years after acquisitions relative to a matched sample, and is concentrated in targets that close all establishments. There...
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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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Family Ownership, Workplace Closure and the Recession
Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Gulbrandsen, Trygve - 2016
Using nationally representative Norwegian data we show family-owned workplaces are less likely to close than observationally similar non-family-owned workplaces. But this changed during the Crisis when the family businesses' closure hazard soared. This hike in 2009 was not related to performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479395