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EMPLOYEE REFERRAL, SOCIAL PROXIMITY AND WORKER DISCIPLINE: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM INDIA

Dhillon, Amrita; Iversen, Vegard; Torsvik, Gaute - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2013

We study an important mechanism underlying employee referrals into informal low skilled jobs in developing countries. Employers can exploit social preferences between employee referees and potential workers to improve discipline. The profitability of using referrals increases with referee stakes...

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CPI Bias and Real Living Standards in Russia During the Transition

Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven; Le, Trinh - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2004

The economies of the former Soviet Bloc experienced large declines in output during the decade of transition which … deflators provide a poor proxy for the change in real living standards in transition economies. This paper uses the Engel curve … the transition period and to provide an estimate of how much the officialRussian CPI has overstated consumer inflation. We …

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Growth Engines of the South? South Africa’s, Brazil’s and Turkey’s market constellations in comparison

Duman, Alper; Heise, Arne - 2009

The world is experiencing its worst recession in 80 years. What started as US sub-prime financial turmoil has developed into the first global recession since the infamous "Great Depression" of the early 1930s. However gloomy the perspectives for the very short term are, there will be a recovery...

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Tax Toleration and Tax Compliance: How Government Affects the Propensity of Firms to Enter the Uno¢ cial Economy

Hibbs Jr., Douglas A.; Piculescu, Violeta - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005

affected by quality of governance - in particular by the presence of high-grade institutions delivering services enhancing …-level data from the World Bank's World Business Environment Surveys.<p> …

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Endogenous Institutional Change After Independence

Congdon Fors, Heather; Olsson, Ola - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005

institutions where an autocratic post-colonial ruler faces a basic trade-off between stronger property rights, which increases his … modern sector will rationally install weak institutions of private property, a prediction which we argue is well in line with …

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Path Dependence or Convergence? The Evolution of Corporate Ownership Around the World

Yeh, Andrew J.Y.; Lim, Steven; Vos, Ed - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2006

We offer a theory that sheds light on the current debate over whether the form of corporate ownership converges to the Berle-Means image. Our analytical results are threefold. First, legal rules and firm-specific protective arrangements are complementary. Secondly, corporate ownership patterns...

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How middle-men can undermine anti-corruption reforms

Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Torsvik, Gaute; Tungodden, Bertil - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2004

The anti-corruption reform in the Tanzanian tax bureaucracy in the mid-1990s was apparently a short-lived success. In the wake of the reform, a number of “tax experts” established themselves in the market, many of them being laid off tax bureaucrats. We argue that middle-men can undermine...

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Access to Credit: Microenterprises in Turkey

Duman, Alper - 2009

Access to external finance for small and medium enterprises is vital for survival and growth of such firms. In this paper we have analyzed the determinants of access to credit in microenterprises of Turkey. We use a unique dataset covering a large sample of microenterprises. We find that size...

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Asset Inequality, Relative Efficieny of Formal Credit Markets and Choice of Organizational Form

Duman, Alper - 2009

We model the organizational choice of a small firm given formal and informal credit market parameters. We observe a positive relationship between the size of the informal sector and the spread across countries. We take spread as relative inefficiency of the formal credit markets. Furthermore we...

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Using Panel Data to Exactly Estimate Under-Reporting by the Self-Employed

Gibson, John; Kim, Bonggeun; Chung, Chul - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2008

self-employed households in Korea and 47 percent of the income of Russian self-employed households is not reported. …

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