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Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
Urquiola, Miguel; Verhoogen, Eric A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines how schools choose class size and how households sort in response to those choices. Focusing on the highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a model in which schools are heterogeneous in an underlying productivity parameter, class size is a component of school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761805
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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice; Verhoogen, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with heterogeneous, monopolistically competitive firms, extending Melitz (2003 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030891
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The Real Exchange Rate and External Competitiveness in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia
Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs; Hadj Amor Essid, Thouraya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
misalignments. Intra-regional trade – both with North Africa and the rest of the continent – together with greater orientation to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271994
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The Social Impact of Globalization in the Developing Countries
Lee, Eddy; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI … employment creation nor the decrease in within-country inequality are automatically assured by increasing trade and FDI. The …, giving raise to concentration and marginalisation phenomena; 2) increasing trade and FDI do not emerge as the main culprits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822450
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Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus
Bakanova, Marina; Estrin, Saul; Pelipas, Igor; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
. We conclude that this is probably because the institutional environment has not evolved sufficiently from the socialist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761783
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Does the Use of Worker Flows Improve the Analysis of Establishment Turnover? Evidence from German Administrative Data
Hethey-Maier, Tanja; Schmieder, Johannes F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Economists have long been interested in analyzing entries and exits of establishments. In many countries administrative datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and disaggregate level. However, administrative datasets are not without problems: restructuring and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700691
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What Do Unions Do for Economic Performance?
Hirsch, Barry T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Twenty years have passed since Freeman and Medoff's What Do Unions Do? This essay assesses their analysis of how unions in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703831
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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822655
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Globalization and the Provision of Incentives Inside the Firm: The Effect of Foreign Competition
Cuñat, Vicente; Guadalupe, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper studies the effect of changes in foreign competition on the incentives faced by U.S. managers in the form of wage structures, promotion profiles, and job turnover. We use a panel of executives and measure foreign competition as import penetration. Using tariffs and exchange rates as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763446
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Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival
Brown, J. David; Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011904