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From State to Market: A Survey of Empirical Studies on Privatization

Megginson, William L.; Netter, Jeffry M. - 1999

This study surveys the academic and professional literature examining the privatisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), with a focus on empirical studies. Privatisation has been instrumental in reducing state ownership in many countries and had a transforming effect on global stock markets,...

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The Economics of Employment Protection

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2001

Empirical investigation of the labor market consequences of employment protection has mushroomed since Lazear's (1990 … mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …

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The economics of employment protection

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2001

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A lockdown index to assess the economic impact of the coronavirus

Faber, Marius; Ghisletta, Andrea; Schmidheiny, Kurt - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 156 (2020) 1/11, pp. 1-23

until the end of April 2020 and find that it can explain up to 58% of these short-term employment outcomes. …

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International productivity gaps : are labour input measures comparable?

Ward, Ashley; Zinni, María Belén; Marianna, Pascal - 2018

Cross-country differences in the measurement of labour input contribute to observed productivity gaps across countries …. In most countries, labour force surveys (LFS) form a primary source of information for employment related statistics … and, so, under-estimate labour productivity levels. To illustrate the size of this bias, for this group of countries, the …

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Policies to help the working class in the aftermath of COVID-19: lessons from the Great Recession

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Corinth, Kevin; Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated government mandated shutdowns caused a historic shock to the U.S. economy and a disproportionate job loss concentrated among the working class. While an unprecedented social safety net policy response successfully offset earnings loses among lower-wage...

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A Global View on Demographic Pressure and Labour Market Participation

Peeters, Marga - 2012

Demographic change across the globe puts pressure on labour markets and public finances. Most studies on ageing focus on the projected development of the old age dependency ratio, being the ratio of persons 65 or older relative to the working age population. This ratio gives a very incomplete...

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Global Agricultural Value Chains and Employment Growth

Lim, Sunghun; Kim, Sie Won - 2021

associated with an increase in agricultural employment growth. We uncover evidence that the positive job creation impact is …

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Servitization across countries and sectors: evidence from world input-output data

Friesenbichler, Klaus S.; Kügler, Agnes - 2021 - This version: 28th July 2021

labour productivity. The service intensities in the sectoral production mix are lower in countries with higher manufacturing … shares. This holds for both catching up and developed economies. However, servitization is largely unrelated to productivity … and employment growth. Hence, we argue that the degree of servitization is contingent on and an attribute of the …

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What do we really know about productivity differentials across countries?

Ghosh, Jayati - In: Review of radical political economics 54 (2022) 4, pp. 397-410

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