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Labor Market Policies and Unemployment in the Czech Republic
(1998-11-01)
We analyze the impact of the active labor market policies (ALMPS) and the unemployment compensation system (UCS) on unemployment duration's of different groups in the Czech population by estimating hazard functions with ...
An Assessment of the Performance of Indian State-Owned Enterprises
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-03)
We examine the determinants of performance of 68 Indian state-owned enterprises in the manufacturing sector for a five-year period: 1987 to 1991. Relative performance is determined using data envelopment analysis, with ...
The WALRAS Algorithm: A Convergent Distributed Implementation of General Equilibrium Outcomes
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-08)
The WALRAS algorithm calculates competitive equilibria via a distributed tatonnement-like process, in which agents submit single-good demand functions to market-clearing auctions. The algorithm is asynchronous and decentralized ...
Using CEO Succession to Integrate Acquired Organizations: A Contingency Analysis
(Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1998-09)
Chief Executive Compensation During Early Transition: Further Evidence from Bulgaria
(1998-06-01)
By using new waves of a panel survey of Bulgarian firms with matching information for chief executives, evidence is presented on the determinants of chief executive compensation during 1992-1995. During that period, ...
Teaching with difference: A response to Angela Calabrese Barton: Teaching science with homeless children: Pedagogy, representation, and identity
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998-04)
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Does Market Structure Matter?: New Evidence From Russia
(1998-06-01)
In this paper we re-examine empirically the Structure-Conduct-Performance relationship between concentration and profitability using new data on Russia that allow us to overcome the endogeneity problem of market structure ...
Worker-Firm Matching and Unemployment in Transition to a Market Economy: (Why) Were the Czechs More Successful than Others?
(1998-01-01)
Using panel district level data from the Czech and Slovak Republic in the 1990s, we find that the exceptionally low unemployment rate in the Czech Republic as compared to Slovakia and the other CEE economies has been brought ...
Financial Discipline in the Enterprise Sector in Transition Countries: How Does China Compare?
(1998-02-01)
This paper makes some selective comparisons of the empirical evidence relating to financial discipline and soft budget constraints in the enterprise sector in China and the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe ...