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Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure: Evidence from Firm Personnel Records

Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization...

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Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals

Campos, Nauro F.; Horváth, Roman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries … external liberalization and privatization, concentration of political power drives internal liberalization, and democracy … internal liberalization reversals, and OECD growth increase that of external liberalization reversals. We replicate previous …

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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

This paper provides a systematic empirical investigation of the effect of product market liberalization on employment … when there are interactions between policies and institutions in product and labor markets. Using panel data for OECD …

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Costs and Benefits of Labor Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries: The Case of Poland

Duszczyk, Maciej; Góra, Marek; Kaczmarczyk, Pawel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results in not fully developed yet institutional infrastructure for managing especially the immigrants flow. In this paper we structure all existing data and other pieces of information...

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The State of University Policy for Progress in Europe

Hoareau, Cécile; Ritzen, Jo; Marconi, Gabriele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

’ for higher education institutions, or in other words provide them with appropriate resources and regulatory environments …

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Politics Before Pupils? Electoral Cycles and School Resources in India

Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Primary education in India is a development question of a unique magnitude, and the delivery of education by Indian states is often suspected to be marred by political haggling and corruption. Using rich administrative school-level panel data across Indian states, we test for electoral cycles in...

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The Lifetime Earnings Premium in the Public Sector: The View from Europe

Dickson, Matt; Postel-Vinay, Fabien; Turon, Hélène - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In a context of widespread concern about budget deficits, it is important to assess whether public sector pay is in line with the private sector. Our paper proposes an estimation of differences in lifetime values of employment between public and private sectors for five European countries. We...

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Emigration, Remittances and Corruption Experience of Those Staying Behind

Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying in the countries of origin. We hypothesize that the effects of emigration on corruption can be both positive (via migrant value transfer) and negative (via misuse of monetary...

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Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin: Is There a Role for Policy?

Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that the association between household wealth portfolios at...

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Quit Behavior and the Role of Job Protection

Gielen, Anne C.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Job protection reduces job turnover by changing firms' hiring and firing decisions. Yet the effect of job protection on workers' quit decisions and post-quit outcomes is still unknown. We present the first evidence using individual panel data from 12 European countries, which differ both in...

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