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We study how transition has affected human resource policies of a Russian heavy industry firm. Our data set contains personnel files of 1538 white-collar workers over 17 years: from 1984 to 2000. We find career paths before the first year of Gaidar's reforms, 1992, when Russian transition to a...
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We use a new firm-level dataset to examine the efficiency of investment in emerging economies. In the three-year period following stock market liberalizations, the growth rate of the typical firm's capital stock exceeds its pre-liberalization mean by an average of 5.4 percentage points....
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"This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies. We discuss available … evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization, review the existing literature, and present … of the observed cycles of privatization and nationalization, and is consistent with a variety of observed phenomena …
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investigate the demand for the rule of law in post-Communist economies after privatization under the assumption that theft is …
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In 1997, France T‚l‚com, the state-owned French telephone company, went through a partial privatization. The government …
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Many advocates of social security privatization argue that rates of return under a defined contribution individual … riskiness of stock investments. Confusion arises because three distinct reforms are muddled. By privatization we mean creating … about a quarter of all social security contributions, in perpetuity. Unlike privatization, prefunding would raise rates of …
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This paper studies the market provision of a specific type of public good: radio and television broadcasts. Its main focus is to explore the ability of the market to provide broadcasting efficiently in a world in which broadcasters earn revenues by selling time to advertisers and advertisements...
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The privatization of social services is being increasingly discussed. The social services market is characterized by …
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Privatization of a public good (the management of sewage treatment centers in Dakar, Senegal) leads to an increase in … dumping increased substantially following privatization-on average an increase of 61.7%, or an increase of about 14,000 cubic … following privatization, and DHS data show that diarrhea rates among children under five decreased in Dakar relative to …
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The present paper analyzes the competitive, monopolistic, and public enforcement of fines allowing for the costs of enforcement to differ by the choice of the enforcer. There are a number of reasons to expect such differences. First, the benefits from coordinating enforcement -- for example,...
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