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The important debate about how economic fluctuations affect employment reallocation in heterogeneous businesses is currently open in the literature. This debate is relevant as it matters for the understanding of the labor market dynamics, and for devising labor policies that aim at dampening...
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This paper documents recent structural changes in China's corporate landscape, based on company level data, providing a complementary perspective to that of official Chinese statistics. We classify China's largest companies by revenue since 2004 (based on Fortune Global 500 rankings), and...
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about the market. This suggests that, beyond slowing down matching, search frictions have a second understudied cost: they …
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In defining the transition towards a post-carbon future, understanding the needs and determinants for policy priorities … different priorities in policy action for cities working to transition toward post-carbon futures. Results from the case study … efficiency and the transition to non-fossil energy resources. However, the specific mix of strategies envisaged for each city has …
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considered as in transition to a full market economy, and that of the present EU members. The raw data shows some evidence of … capita income gap between developed and transition economies leads to a decrease in the energy intensity growth rate of a … transition country by 0.7%. There are differences in the rate of convergence across countries, and these depend on two parameters …
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The privatisation policy pursued in the UK by Mrs Thatcher's government (1979-1990) and subsequently by Mr Major's government (1990-1997) was the largest experiment in public divestitures among capitalist economies. It had a deep impact on economic policy-making world wide, and was vastly...
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We investigate the impact of differences in privatisation method on national economic performance in transition … transition and recession was over. Our analysis suggests that an advantage of mass privatisation was that it led spontaneously to …
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transition economies, Poland and the Czech Republic, we find that despite important differences in the design of the two …
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