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    <title>EconStor Community: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, Mich.</title>
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      <title>Helping hand or grabbing hand? State bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/64402</link>
      <description>Title: Helping hand or grabbing hand? State bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to implement policies effectively and provide a supportive institutional environment? We explore these questions in a study of privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and employing a multilevel re-search design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find that privatization is more effective in regions with relatively large bureaucracies. Our analysis suggests that this effect is driven by the impact of bureaucracy on the post-privatization business environment, with better institutional support and less corruption when bureaucracies are large.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How do the effects of local growth on employment rates vary with initial labor market conditions?</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/64401</link>
      <description>Title: How do the effects of local growth on employment rates vary with initial labor market conditions?
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Bartik, Timothy J.
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper examines how the effects of increased employment growth on a metropolitan area's employment to population ratio varies with the initial tightness of the metropolitan area's labor market. This examination is relevant to evaluating the benefits of local economic development policies in different metropolitan areas. Much of the benefits of such policies are in higher employment rates. The empirical estimates suggest that the effectiveness of employment growth in increasing the employment to population ratio is lower in metropolitan areas with 'tight' labor markets. In addition, some estimates suggest that growth has the greatest long-run effects on the employment to population ratio in metropolitan areas with some looseness in labor market conditions, compared to metropolitan areas with the most tight or most loose labor market conditions. Growth pays off the most for metropolitan areas that have above-average labor market problems, but not too much above average.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Evaluating job training in two Chinese cities</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/64400</link>
      <description>Title: Evaluating job training in two Chinese cities
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Bidani, Benu; Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Goh, Chor-ching; O'Leary, Christopher J.
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Recent years have seen a surge in work on the impacts of active labor market programs for numerous countries. However, little evidence has been presented on the effectiveness of such programs in China. Recent economic reforms, associated with massive lay-offs, and the accompanying public retraining programs make China fertile ground for rigorous impact evaluations. This study uses survey data from the two large industrial cities Shenyang and Wuhan, covering the period 1998 to 2000, to evaluate retraining programs for over 2000 workers two years after they had been observed as displaced and unemployed. Using a comparison group design, this study is, to our knowledge, the first evaluation of its kind in China. The evidence suggests that retraining helped workers find jobs in Wuhan, but had little effect in Shenyang. The study raises questions about the overall effectiveness of retraining expenditures, and it offers some directions for policy-makers about future interventions to help laid-off workers.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Nonstandard forms and measures of employment and unemployment in transition: A comparative study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/64399</link>
      <description>Title: Nonstandard forms and measures of employment and unemployment in transition: A comparative study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav; Lehmann, Hartmut; Telegdy, Álmos; Vantu, Irina; Visan, Ruxandra; Voicu, Alexandru
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment of household production (subsistence agriculture), unpaid family helpers, and discouraged workers, while the categories of part-time work and other forms of marginal attachment are still relatively unimportant. We find that tweaking the official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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