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Has the willingness to work fallen during the Covid pandemic?

Faberman, R. Jason; Müller, Andreas; Şahin, Ayşegül - 2022

elicit information about individuals' desired work hours for the 2013-2021 period. Using these questions, along with workers …

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Waiting for jobs

Kapoor, Radhicka - 2017

Employment data in India is far from adequate if policy responses have to be more effective and timely. Most employment surveys suffer from drawbacks such as limited data coverage, infrequent data collection and long time lags. To address these gaps and revamp the existing employment data...

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Implications of labor supply specifications in CGE models: A demonstration for employment of Palestinian labor in Israel and its impact on the West Bank economy

Agbahey, Johanes; Siddig, Khalid; Grethe, Harald - 2020

Results of general equilibrium models are sensitive to model parameterization and specification. The role of macroeconomic closures and the effect of trade elasticities are documented in the literature, but there is no systematic analysis of the implications of different labor supply...

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How physicians affect patients' employment outcomes through deciding on sick leave durations

Ahammer, Alexander - 2016

I analyze how general practitioners (GPs) indirectly affect their patients' employment outcomes by deciding on the length of sickness absences. I use an instrumental variables framework where spell durations are identified through supply-side certification measures estimated from the data. I...

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Age effects in Swedish local labour markets

Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2002

of 50 to 60 year old workers have an adverse effect on the labour market. This is consistent with negative externalities …The paper studies the effects of changes in the age structure on aggregate labour market performance using a panel of … Swedish local labour markets. The methodology of Shimer (2001) is used for studying the effects of youth cohort size and is …

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Privatization in Austria: Some theoretical reasons and performance measures

Schneider, Friedrich; Belke, Ansgar - 2004

The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various … aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, we provide some theoretical reasoning why … privatization is useful as well as profitable for an economy and empirically present the extent of privatization in Austria and …

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Outsourcing Public Services: Contractibility, Cost, and Quality

Andersson, Fredrik; Jordahl, Henrik; Josephson, Jens - 2019

We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. The...

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Ownership and Production Costs - Choosing Between Public Production and Contracting Out

Ohlsson, Henry - 1998

Many comparisons of the performance of public and private producers use a public/private ownership dummy variable to capture cost differences in cross section data. This is appropriate if the producer choice is random. The dummy variable model is, however, logically inconsistent if the producer...

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Automobile sector in India at the current juncture: Crisis and prospects

Jha, Praveen K.; Mishra, Preksha; Singh, Kamya - 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc along Global Value Systems (GVSs) and India's domestic economic crisis deepened, the already struggling Indian Automotive sector incurred huge losses owing to both demand and supply side factors. In fact, the sector has been under significant strain over...

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Ownership Characteristics and Access to Finance:Evidence from a Survey of Large Privatised Companiesin Hungary and Poland.

Isachenkova, Natalia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2003

We examine financial constraints and forms of finance used for investment, byanalysing survey data on 157 large privatised companies in Hungary and Poland for theperiod 1998 – 2000. The Bayesian analysis using Gibbs sampling is carried out toobtain inferences about the sample companies’...

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