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What Are Over-the-Road Truckers Paid For? Evidence from an Exogenous Regulatory Change on the Role of Social Comparisons and Work Organization in Wage Determination
Burks, Stephen V.; Guy, Frederick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
economic deregulation. Road driver output is individualized, and pay is on the basis of a piece rate (mileage). However, road … deregulation and union coverage fell slowly, while in TL both the union differential and union coverage fell sharply. We review …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652529
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Employment Outcomes and the Interaction Between Product and Labor Market Deregulation: Are They Substitutes or Complements?
Fiori, Giuseppe; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Scarpetta, Stefano; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
countries over the period 1980-2002, we present evidence that product market deregulation is more effective at the margin when … labor market regulation is high. Moreover, there is evidence in our sample that product market deregulation promotes labor … market deregulation. We show that these results are mostly consistent with the basic predictions of a standard bargaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762118
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Factor Adjustments after Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants
Eslava, Marcela; Haltiwanger, John; Kugler, Adriana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this paper, we analyze employment and capital adjustments using a panel of plants from Colombia. We allow for nonlinear adjustment of employment to reflect not only adjustment costs of labor but also adjustment costs of capital, and vice-versa. Using data from the Annual Manufacturing Survey,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703671
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Do Changes in Regulation Affect Temporary Agency Workers' Job Satisfaction?
Busk, Henna; Jahn, Elke J.; Singer, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163482
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Job Satisfaction and Self-Selection into the Public or Private Sector: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Danzer, Natalia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A natural experiment – the massive privatization process in post …-Soviet countries – allows correcting potential self-selection bias. Industry-specific privatization probabilities are assigned to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884142
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On the Reversibility of Structural Reforms
Campos, Nauro F; Horváth, Roman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the likelihood of privatization reversals, (b) worsened terms of trade increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279308
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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233777
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Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America
Campos, Nauro F.; Kinoshita, Yuko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper investigates the role of structural reforms – privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization – as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761719
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Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus
Bakanova, Marina; Estrin, Saul; Pelipas, Igor; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761783
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The Financial and Operating Performance of Privatized Firms in Sweden
Tatahi, Motasam; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
privatized firms. First, accounting data prior to and after the privatization are employed to measure the operating performance … are significantly different to private counterparts. Overall results, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762205