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This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective bargaining agreements works councils are more likely...
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We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...
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Recent theoretical research has identified many ways how contracts can be used as rent seeking devices vis-à-vis third parties, but there is no empirical evidence on this issue so far. To test some basic qualitative properties of this literature, we develop a theoretical and empirical framework...
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A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in particular between 1989 and 1991, in some age groups by up to the thirty percent. This study first examines the developments of mortality and cause of death statistics based on...
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In the transition to a market economy, the Russian workforce underwent a wrenching period of change, with excess supply …
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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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communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to … returns to education obtained during communism vs. transition; no change in wage-experience profiles over time; and similar … the planners did; all the adjustment occurred in early transition and was driven by market forces rather than private …
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aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but … later, and on average over the whole transition, this relationship is reversed. Though reallocation rates are larger in …
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developing and transition economies. With an eye toward future policy, we apply this approach to the first large longitudinal …
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This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed … cover thousands of firms from virtually all transition countries over a long time period (1996-99 through 2002-05), as well … convergence of transition countries with developed market economies in a number of dimensions. The pattern of growth at the …
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