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Learning Dynamics and the Support for Economic Reforms: Why Good News can be Bad

van Wijnbergen, Sweder; Willems, Tim - 2012

Support for economic reforms has often shown puzzling dynamics: there are many examples of reforms that started off successfully but nevertheless lost public support, and vice versa. We show that learning dynamics can rationalize this apparent paradox, the reason being that the process of...

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Does privatization raise productivity? Evidence from comprehensive panel data on manufacturing firms in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - 2004

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe … employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we estimate that majority privatization raises MFP about 28% in Romania, 22 …%. Privatization to foreign rather than domestic investors has a larger impact (about 44%) and is much more consistent across countries …

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Beteiligungsberichterstattung der öffentlichen Hand im 13-Länder-Vergleich: Erfordernisse für mehr Transparenz über die Governance und Performance öffentlicher Unternehmen

Papenfuß, Ulf; Steinhauer, Lars; Friedländer, Benjamin - 2015

[Einführung und Motivation ...] Die Studie bietet eine erste Orientierungshilfe für Praxis und Wissenschaft. Sie leistet damit auch eine notwendige Basis für weiterführende vergleichende Analysen des Beteiligungsberichtswesens im internationalen Kontext. In Kapitel 2 werden Relevanz von und...

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Accounting for Variations in Trade Union Effectiveness: State-Labor Relations in East Central Europe

Avdagic, Sabina - 2003

This paper offers an explanation for variations in the effectiveness of trade unions to obtain legislative and policy concessions in peak-level tripartite negotiations in post-communist East Central Europe. I examine the usefulness of some standard interpretations for such variations, namely...

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Extraordinary measures in extraordinary times: Public measures in support of the financial sector in the EU and the United States

Stolz, Stéphanie Marie; Wedow, Michael - 2010

The extensive public support measures for the financial sector have been key for the management of the current financial crisis. This paper gives a detailed description of the measures taken by central banks and governments and attempts a preliminary assessment of the effectiveness of such...

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Labour market transitions and employment regimes: Evidence on the flexibility-security nexus in transitional labour markets

Muffels, Ruud; Wilthagen, Ton; van den Heuvel, Nick - 2002

This paper deals with the question whether the concept of transitional labour market (TLM) might be useful to formulate hypotheses about the relationship between the size and nature of labour market transitions and the performance of employment regimes. The paper starts from the idea that the...

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Einfluss der Sozialisierung im Schulalter auf das Unternehmertum

Falck, Oliver; Gäbler, Stefanie - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 23 (2016) 4, pp. 29-33

Welchen Einfluss hat Schulbildung auf die spätere Berufswahl, insbesondere auf die Entscheidung, sich selbstständig zu machen? Während Schüler, welche in der BRD geboren wurden, ihre Erziehung in einer freien Marktwirtschaft erhielten, wuchsen Schüler aus der DDR während ihrer gesamten...

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Wirtschaftspolitik in China und Indien im Vergleich

Winkel, Axel - 2012

Sowohl China als auch Indien haben in den vergangenen 30 Jahren eine bemerkenswerte wirtschaftliche Transformation vollzogen. Aus den beiden ökonomisch unterentwickelten Staaten sind zwei zukünftige wirtschaftliche und politische Supermächte erwachsen. Trotz zahlreicher Reformen zur...

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Wage and employment effects of a wage norm: The Polish transition experience

De Crombrugghe, Alain; De Walque, Gregory - 2011

Most transition countries used tax-supported wage norms in the early 1990's, as a part of their market liberalization programs. This paper analyses how a firm-level tax (or subsidy) on deviations from a pre-set wage norm may promote employment by rotating the labor demand curve perceived by the...

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Privatisierung von Arbeitsvermittlungsdienstleistungen - Wundermittel zur Effizienzsteigerung? Eine Bestandsaufnahme deutscher und internationaler Erfahrungen

Kaps, Petra; Schütz, Holger - 2007

Recent reform proposals assume efficiency gains of further privatization of public placement services. However, since … presents theoretical and empirical findings about these forms of privatization. General requirements for managing contracts and …, the prospects to increase the efficiency of placement services by privatization are considered to be limited due to the …

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