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Raising the Financial Costs of Children and Fertility Responses : Evidence from the Kibbutz

Ebenstein, Avraham Y. - 2011

examines the impact of the privatization of kibbutzim on fertility behavior among members. We find that fertility declined by 6 … due to privatization, our results suggest that financial considerations may be a more modest factor in fertility decisions …

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Privatization and the Postsocialist Fertility Decline

Scheiring, Gabor; P.H. Hui, Bryant; Irdam, Darja; … - 2021

The ten countries with the fastest shrinking population are all located in Eastern Europe, with low fertility as one of … behind the postsocialist fertility decline. We argue that privatization is linked to lower fertility by catalyzing … company privatization is significantly associated with the postsocialist fertility decline. The observed level of …

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Privatization and Restructuring: An Incomplete--Contract Approach

Dieter B”s - University of Bonn, Germany - 1996

This paper deals with a special hold-up problem in privatization.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968178

Privatization in Colombia: a plant performance analysis

Pombo, Carlos; Ramirez, Manuel - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2002

This paper describes the real sector privatization program in Colombia during the nineties and puts that policy in the context of general market deregulation and promotion of private investment in the provision of public infrastructure and domiciliary public services strategy. The paper...

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Privatization in Italy 1993-2002 : goals, institutions, outcomes, and outstanding issues

Goldstein, Andrea - 2003

This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of macroeconomic adjustment, general market deregulation, and promotion of private investment in the provision of public infrastructure. The wave of state divestitures reached Italy later...

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The puzzle of industrial enterprises in Romania over a century : 1918-2017

Chivu, Luminita - 2019

The configuration of industrial enterprises in Romania, in terms of numbers and structure, in relation to their characteristics, mirrors the Romanian economy and society at large, in their chronological development. Marked by the changes in the technological and economic paradigm, by the...

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Everyone hates privatization, but why? Survey evidence from 28 post-communist countries

Denisova, Irina; Eller, Markus; Frye, Timothy; … - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 1, pp. 44-61

Studies of mass support for economic reform reveal a simple conclusion: Everyone hates privatization. Yet whether respondents hold this view due to a preference for state property or concerns about the legitimacy of privatization is unclear. We test these arguments using a 2006 survey of 28,000...

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Institutions and the support for market reforms : a combination of individual self-interest and good institutions determines the level of public support for market reforms

Denisova, Irina - 2016

Economic self-interest and social considerations are the key determinants of public support for market reforms in transition countries. However, political strategies that rely mainly on public support for pushing through economic reforms have limited relevance if the prevailing institutional...

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Land reform in Moldova : how viable are emerging peasant farms? ; an assessment referring to a recent World Bank study

Petrick, Martin - 2000

Based on a case study of two Moldovan regions, the paper challenges the favourable assessment of recently established peasant farms in a World Bank study by LERMAN et al. (1998). The main arguments in favour of a more critical view of the results of land privatisation and farm restructuring are...

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Did Postcommunist Privatization Increase Mortality?

Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - 2011

We reexamine the recent controversy over the possibility that mass enterprise privatization raised mortality in post-communist countries. Our analysis demonstrates that the country-level correlation of privatization and mortality reported in previous research is not robust to recomputing the...

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