To measure private sector participation, we computed the percentage of live births that took place in a private (for-profit or non-profit/mission) health facility and the percentage of children with ARI symptoms who were treated at a private health facility.
A December employment survey from ADP, an imperfect indicator of the government figure that measures private-sector payrolls, showed a decline of 84,000 jobs, better than November's 145,000 losses, but Shirvaikar is quick to warn that his more bullish tone on Robert Half and Manpower is not any type of prediction for Friday's job report.
The dependent variables are our measures of access or inequity and the independent variables are the corresponding measures of private sector participation.
"These measures privilege private sector solutions but also include a solid framework for the provision of government support in case of need, in line with state aid rules," the statement said.
"The struggle by the workers, the pensioners and the unemployed against these anti-worker and anti-social measures continues," private sector union GSEE said in a statement.
Another related caveat is that our measures of private sector participation reflect the proportion of the population using private health facilities, and cannot be generalized to cover the expansion of relatively unregulated non-facility based private sector such as drug peddlers and traditional healers.
The CBI's measure of private sector growth dropped to -3 in February from zero in January.
This is our measure for private sector employees.
The National Bureau of Statistics has yet to develop adequate sampling techniques to measure the private sector, which by all accounts is performing worse than the state component of the economy these days.
While this concern was partly addressed by adding to the regression the government effectiveness, which controls for the business environment of each country, we have also added a measure of private sector competitiveness in order to check whether conditional on it there is still an association between exposure to international competition and the wage gap.
