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Structural Changes in Transition Economies: Breaking the News or Breaking the Ice?
(2006-08-17)
This paper extends the existing literature in structural breaks in transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe, analyzing structural breaks in the volatility of monthly key macroeconomic variables, such as industrial ...
Issues of Fairness in Dispute Settlement
(2008-06-09)
We first discuss what fairness may mean in the context of the dispute settlement process, noting the crucial relation between fairness in dispute settlement and the functioning of the trading system as a whole. We explore ...
The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil: Evidence from Gross Worker Flows
(2007-09-12)
This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rising informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from 1983-2002. This period covers two economic cycles, several stabilization plans, a farreaching
trade ...
Shadow Economy and Entrepreneurial Entry
(2010-06-22)
We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of the shadow economy on entrepreneurial entry, utilising 1998-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple ...
Decentralization and Water Pollution Spillovers: Evidence from the Redrawing of County Boundaries in Brazil
(2008-10-14)
We examine the effect of political decentralization on pollution spillovers across jurisdictional boundaries.
Upstream water use has spillover effects on downstream jurisdictions, and greater decentralization (i.e. a ...
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development:Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?*
(2006-04-06)
Development implies that the efficiency of local firms converges to that of firms in advanced economies. We examine this using 1992-2000 panel data on virtually all industrial firms in the Czech Republic and Russia. We ...
The Plaintiff’s Role in Enforcing a Court Ruling: Evidence from a Labor Court in Mexico
(2010-06-22)
We analyze the outcomes of 128 cases from a labor court in Mexico in which a judge awarded
money to a plaintiff who claimed to have been fired by a firm without cause. The judgment was
enforced in only 44% of the cases. ...
Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Regionally Targeted Subsidies in Turkey
(2008-10-14)
This paper studies the e ects on registered employment, earnings, and number of
registered establishments of two employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement
a di erence-in-di erences methodology to construct ...
Analysis of Attrition Patterns in the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey
(2007-09-11)
This paper offers an analysis of attrition patterns in the “New” Turkish Household Labor
Force Survey (HLFS) which has been conduced since 2000. The most important feature of
the redesigned survey is its short panel ...