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Employment relations in Zambia
Fashoyin, Tayo - In: Employee Relations 30 (2008) 4, pp. 391-403
Purpose – The paper aims to explore the impact of economic transformation on employment relations and the effect on the …. This has in turn resulted in weakening the employment relationship. Research limitations/implications – The research has … partners in the employment relationship. It presents the critical need for policy review, and particularly strategic …
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The effects of neoliberal structural adjustment on women's relative employment in Latin America
Ball, Jennifer A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 31 (2004) 10, pp. 974-987
Neoliberal structural adjustment policies (SAPS) have been criticized as having negative effects on women's employment … differences in the growth of women's relative employment. Countries with less orthodox adjustment policies appear to have had … greater growth in women's relative employment than countries with more orthodox policies. This pattern is illustrated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805242
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The roles of capital and technological progress in Vietnam's economic growth
Minh Ngoc, Phan - In: Journal of Economic Studies 35 (2008) 2, pp. 200-219
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to measure the contribution of capital formation, labor, and technological progress to the growth of the Vietnamese economy, the impact of economic reforms ( doi moi ) since the end of 1986, and the rates of returns to capital and labor....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014863169
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Regulatory reform in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007‐2008
Lo, Andrew W. - In: Journal of Financial Economic Policy 1 (2009) 1, pp. 4-43
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse regulatory reform in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007‐2008. Design/methodology/approach – The paper proposes a framework for regulatory reform that begins with the observation that financial manias and panics cannot be legislated...
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The (revised) future of financial markets
Bennett, Paul - In: Journal of Financial Economic Policy 3 (2011) 2, pp. 109-122
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate recent financial system reforms in the USA by placing them in the context of major structural trends currently underway in the markets, due to technology and globalization of trading. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes trends...
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Pro‐market reforms and allocation of capital in India
Desai, Sameeksha; Eklund, Johan; Högberg, Andreas - In: Journal of Financial Economic Policy 3 (2011) 2, pp. 123-139
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the efficiency of capital allocation, across levels of ownership, in the aftermath of pro‐market reforms in India. Design/methodology/approach – The paper measures investment efficiency using the accelerator principle and examines the effect...
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The new round of reform of state-owned enterprises
Yang, Weidong - In: Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies 7 (2015) 1, pp. 55-66
Purpose – This paper aims to review the state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in China and analyzes the role of the Chinese Government in the progress of the SOE reform. It provides suggestions to better guide the direction of further reforms of the SOEs in China. Design/methodology/approach –...
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A decomposition of total productivity growth
Kumar, Surender - In: International Journal of Productivity and Performance … 55 (2006) 3/4, pp. 311-331
Purpose – To measure total factor productivity (TFP) growth in industrial manufacturing for 15 major Indian states for the period 1982‐1983 to 2000‐2001. Design/methodology/approach – Uses non‐parametric linear programming methods; TFP growth is decomposed into efficiency and...
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Market reform and fiscal laxity in Communist and post‐Communist Hungary
Benczes, István - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 6 (2011) 2, pp. 118-131
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework in order to analyse and understand the twin developments of successful microeconomic reform on the one hand and failed macroeconomic stabilisation attempts on the other hand in Hungary. The case study also attempts to...
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A comparison and decomposition of reform‐era labor force participation rates of China's ethnic minorities and Han majority
Maurer‐Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - In: International Journal of Manpower 31 (2010) 2, pp. 138-162
Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine observed differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and to decompose these differences into treatment and endowment effects. Design/methodology/approach – Data from the three most recent...
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