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We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … workers' fears, our fixed effect and random trend estimates imply little effect of domestic privatization, except for a slight … countries. The negligible employment impact of domestic privatization results from effects on efficiency and scale that are …
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This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about …
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Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaft, Warschau, untersucht, wie die Unternehmen in Polen und in Ostdeutschland die … zufriedenstellend bewertet. Dabei stufen die Unternehmen in Polen Angebote zur Qualifizierung der Arbeitskräfte öfter als die in … Unternehmen bestehen. Von den in die Untersuchung einbezogenen Standortmerkmalen werden in beiden Gebieten zumeist die gleichen …
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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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This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for 119 countries over the 1995-2002 period. The paper then uses the dataset to reassess the relationship between bank ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations...
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Critics of privatization argue that poor labor force restructuring is a key concern and that governments should … establish better retrenchment programs. Using new data from arandom sample of 400 companies in the world, we test competing … owners after privatization. Our results show that adverse selection plagues retrenchment programs carried out by governments …
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This paper investigates whether privatization in emerging economies has a significant indirect effect on local stock … market development through the resolution of political risk. We argue that a sustained privatization program represents a … regulatory and private property rights. We present evidence suggesting that progress in privatization is indeed correlated with …
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We investigated the effects of privatization on hospital efficiency in Germany. To do so, we obtained bootstrapped DEA … associated with an increase in efficiency of between 3.2 and 5.4%. We defined four alternative post-privatization periods and …
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