results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …

Performance indicators are increasingly used to regulate quality in health care and other areas of the public sector …

We analyse the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and … ownership improves economic performance, but domestic private ownership does not, relative to state-owned firms. Foreign firms … increasing profit. Ownership concentration is associated with superior performance, thus providing support to the agency theory …

against our data. We find that team size affects the impact of the incentive scheme upon performance. Moreover, while the …

In this paper firm level data are used to test whether competition affects productivity performance in three transition … pressure has a positive impact on firm performance in Hungary and Slovenia, but not in Romania, while in Romenia short …-run competitive pressure has a positive impact on performance. The paper also finds evidence that ownership matters. Traditional firms …