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The paper presents a game-theoretic model to investigate to what extent an employee privatization program of State …
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We consider an overlapping generations model with endogenous labor supply. Individuals live for two periods and have different skills. We state equivalence properties of different transfer policies, assuming the government cannot identify individuals and has a limited range of instruments that...
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The objective is to analyse the effects of the Hilmer reforms and National Competition Policy (NCP) on Local Government Authorities (LGA's) and the State Local Government Grants Commissions (LGGC's) operations. The analysis is based upon a particular definition of microeconomic reform with an...
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Since 1991 massive restructuring and liberalization of agricultural marketing have been undertaken in Tanzania. The study examines this process in the context of SAP and the need to ensure a more economically viable private sector driven agricultural marketing system. This study uses interviews...
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Many comparisons of the performance of public and private producers use a public/private ownership dummy varaible to capture cost differences in cross section data. This is appropriate if the producer choice is random. The dummy variable model is, however, logically inconsistent if the producer...
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This paper examined theoretically and empirically privatization episodes in a sample of Sub-Sahara African countries … agent to collaborate with the government (principal) based on religious or ethnic biases and control of the country … supportive of the basic hypothesis that privatization in the sample countries is politically motivated. Because of the simplicity …
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I analyze the reallocation of labor and human capital from the state sector to the nonstate sector and nonemployment in Russia. I use a nationally representative household data set, the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, to study sectoral mobility in two periods of transition using...
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