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ABSTRACTThis paper aims to perform a large‐scale meta‐analysis of the relationship between post‐privatization ownership and firm performance in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Baseline estimation of a meta‐regression model that employs a total of 2,894 estimates drawn from 121 previous studies indicated the superior impact of foreign ownership on firm performance in comparison with state and domestic private entities. Furthermore, the estimation of an extended meta‐regression model that explicitly controls for the idiosyncrasies of transition economies and privatization policies strongly suggested that differences between countries in location, privatization method, and speed of policy implementation strongly influence the link between post‐privatization ownership structure and firm performance. We also found that these factors not only cause a remarkable gap between countries in terms of ex post improvement in firm performance but also significantly affect the interrelationship between foreign investors, domestic outsider owners, and firm managers, and the relative superiority of various domestic outsiders. Conclusive evidence of the harm caused to ex post firm performance by voucher privatization is one of the most noteworthy empirical findings in this paper.

This book is the result of a collaboration between a human editor and an artificial intelligence algorithm to create a machine-generated literature overview of research articles analyzing the mediating role of social media on the psychological wellbeing of youth. It's a new publication format in which state-of-the-art computer algorithms are applied to select the most relevant articles published in Springer Nature journals and create machine-generated literature reviews by arranging the selected articles in a topical order and creating short summaries of these articles. In this volume, a human counsellor psychologist used the algorithm to explore articles that present results of research about the impacts of social media on the psychological wellbeing of youth. The Internet has always been popular among youth, but during the pandemic it has attracted even more attention since many aspects of life further migrated to the digital world, thus adding substantially to Internet's ever-increasing popularity. Today, youth spend a majority portion of their time on the Internet and an increasing amount on social media. In such digitally dependent times, this book attempts to provide insights on the positive and negative impact of the Internet and social media on youth mental health, and also provides specific observations on personality traits

AbstractA growing literature seeks to establish a relationship between India's supposedly "restrictive" labour laws and its poor performance on a range of industrial and social indicators. After providing an overview of this literature, this article shows that multiple errors were made in the foundational papers that constructed indices measuring interstate differences in labour regulation. These indices were then misinterpreted as measures of labour market flexibility. The literature is also marred by econometric problems and by difficulties involved in replicating the analysis with corrected and updated indices. The author concludes by summarizing evidence of deteriorating labour market outcomes for workers in Indian manufacturing.

Vorbemerkung -- Hinweis zur Benutzung -- 1. Einführung und Überblick: Literatur im Zeitalter der Medienkonkurrenz -- 2. Heinrich Mann I -- 3. Thomas Mann I -- 4. Kriegsprosa: Remarque, Renn, Jünger -- 5. Karl Kraus -- 6. Franz Kafka -- 7. Kabarettkultur -- 8. Gottfried Benn -- 9. Bertolt Brecht I: Lyrik -- 10. Volksstück: Zuckmayer, Fleißer, Horváth -- 11. Piscator-Bühne -- 12. Bertolt Brecht II: Lehrstück-Konzept -- 13. Alfred Döblin -- 14. Robert Musil -- 15. Reportage: Reger, Hauser, Kisch -- 16. Literatur der Arbeiterbewegung I: Prosa -- 17. Literatur der Arbeiterbewegung II: Lyrik -- 18. Literatur der Arbeiterbewegung III: Drama -- 19. Literatur des deutschen Faschismus -- 20. 'Innere Emigration' -- 21. Literatur im Exil -- 22. Bertolt Brecht III: Exildramen -- 23. Heinrich Mann II -- 24. Thomas Mann II -- Die Verfasser.

The article takes stock of the "state of affairs" in contemporary research of geographical demography in the USSR and the RF. The issue, concludes the author, has not received sufficient attention, and the use of geodemographic studies in managing regional development remains limited. This article aims to demonstrate three things: the importance of geodemographic approach in comprehensive regional studies to the needs of regional strategic planning; the key features of geodemographic typology of Russian constituent entities; the need for a differentiated approach to geodemographic management in regions of different types. The cluster approach is used to identify types of Russian regions on the basis of both natural and migration-related change. The author identifies correlations between demographic and economic, social, residential, ethnic and environmental demographic indicators; and describes the possibilities of geodemographic situation management stemming from the typological features of the region. The work seeks to draw attention to further development of geodemographic research in Russia and its role in pre-planning studies at the regional level.

Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner: "Gewissen und Geschichte". Studien zur Entstehung des moralischen Bewußtseins. Manutius, Heidelberg 1990. 203 S., geb., 38,- DM

Part of Labour's strategy for winning a second full term of government at the 2001 general election in the UK involved encouraging its MPs, especially those holding marginal seats, to spend considerable time in their constituencies in the preceding years, contacting voters & promoting the party's cause. Given the size of its majority in 1997, it was able to afford for many MPs to be absent from divisions in the House of Commons. This article looks at the voting records of Labour MPs who stood for reelection in 2001 during the two preceding parliamentary sessions. It reports that backbench MPs representing marginal constituencies were much more likely to be absent from the House during the last session prior to the election. Those absences were also apparently related to their performance at the election: the more often they absented themselves from parliamentary votes in that session (compared to the previous session) the better their performance at the 2001 election relative to national trends. 5 Tables. Adapted from the source document.

La monarquía española constituye una pieza esencial de nuestra arquitectura constitucional. Dentro del esquema de relaciones entre órganos de naturaleza constitucional, el Rey que es Jefe del Estado, ejerce funciones derivadas de la actividad de las Cortes Generales y otras que deben ser realizadas ante ellas. Tras 40 años de democracia es el momento de hacer un recorrido por esas relaciones entre ambos órganos, cuyo balance es positivo al contribuir a la estabilidad institucional. Los monarcas han sabido encarnar la unidad y permanencia de España, así como arbitrar el normal funcionamiento de las instituciones incluso en las situaciones más complejas, todo ello con un total respeto a la obligación de neutralidad política impuesta por la Constitución.

Der Umbau der Krankenhäuser zu Unternehmen wird immer wieder als in sich konsistente Rationalisierungsstrategie verhandelt. Aus soziologischer Perspektive wird hingegen deutlich: Die viel diskutierte 'Ökonomisierung' der Krankenhäuser ist ein in sich widersprüchlicher Prozess. Robin Mohan zeichnet die Geschichte des Krankenhauses mithilfe einer an Marx, Weber und Bourdieu orientierten Gesellschaftstheorie der Ökonomisierung nach, die den Widerspruch von Gebrauchswert und Tauschwert zum verbindenden Leitmotiv erhebt. Ergänzt wird die Analyse durch eine arbeitssoziologische Studie, die rekonstruiert, wie sich die Ökonomisierungsprozesse aus der Sicht der Pflegekräfte darstellen.

¿Bei der Frage nach einer spezifischen Identität der Europäischen Union (EU) und ihrem Stellenwert in der Konstruktion und Rechtfertigung politischer Entscheidungen treffen politisches und politikwissenschaftliches Interesse aufeinander - besonders dann, wenn es um die gemeinsame Sicherheitspolitik ihrer Mitgliedstaaten geht. In einer pragmatistisch geprägten Grounded-Theory-Studie zeigt Gesa Panetta Identität als einen von mehreren Wegen, die besondere Gestalt der EU-Sicherheitspolitik greifbar zu machen. Deutlich wird dies im rekonstruierten Modell der "Stabilisierungsarbeit"". Das breit ang

Hauptbeschreibung: In den Jahren der deutschen Teilung entfaltete die DDR eine intensive Spionagetätigkeit gegen die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Dabei verstand sie es geschickt, die Besonderheiten eines geteilten Landes für ihre Zwecke auszunutzen. Nach der Wiedervereinigung musste sich die bundesdeutsche Justiz mit diesem Kapitel deutscher Geschichte intensiv auseinandersetzen. Ausgehend von den hierbei gewonnenen Erkenntnissen untersucht die vorliegende Studie zunächst systematisch eine wesentliche Gruppe der damaligen Akteure: Bundesbürger, die sich als Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter in den Dienst