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Evaluating the effect of ownership status on hospital quality: The key role of innovative procedures

Gobillon, Laurent; Milcent, Carine - 2012

Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status...

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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the BEEPS surveys in transition economies

Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2008

market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power … sources of finance. The scale of restructuring and innovation activity is as high or higher in transition economies as in …

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South-South Migration and the Labor Market: Evidence from South Africa

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - 2013

Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper contributes to a small but growing literature on the impact of South-South migration by looking at one of the most attractive destinations for migrant workers in Sub-Saharan...

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Determinants of Income Mobility and Household Poverty Dynamics in South Africa

Woolard, Ingrid; Klasen, Stephan - 2004

In this paper we analyse household income mobility dynamics among Africans in South Africa?s most populous province, Kwazulu-Natal, between 1993 and 1998. Compared to industrialized and most developing countries, mobility has been quite high, as might have been expected after the transition in...

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Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa

Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2000

High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....

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A theory of efficiency wage with multiple unemployment equilibria: how a higher minimum wage law can curb unemployment

Basu, Kaushik; Felkey, Amanda J. - 2008

This paper uses efficiency wage theory and the existence of community-based sharing to hypothesize that labor markets in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with different levels of wages. The model is meant for...

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Does human capital protect workers against exogenous shocks? South Africa in the 2008 - 2009 crisis

Leung, Ron; Stampini, Marco; Vencatachellum, Désiré - 2009

The financial and economic crisis of 2008 and 2009 has taken its toll on the South African economy. The economy contracted for the first time since 1998, and entered recession during the fourth quarter of 2008. The GDP contraction was soon transmitted to the labor market. Between the second...

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Is there an informal employment wage penalty? Evidence from South Africa

Badaoui, Eliane; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2007

We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector. To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accurately distinguish workers employed in the informal sector from those employed in the formal sector and link individuals...

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Foreign direct investment, black economic empowerment and labour productivity in South Africa

Mebratie, Anagaw Derseh; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2011

The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced technologies and other intangible assets which may spill over to the host country and allow...

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Bumpy rides: School to work transitions in South Africa

Pugatch, Todd - 2012

Re-enrollment in school following a period of dropout is a common feature of the South African school to work transition that has been largely ignored in both the literature on South Africa and the wider literature on sequential schooling choice. In this paper, I quantify the importance of the...

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