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Mixed Oligopoly in Education
Cremer, Helmuth; Maldonado, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the quality of education depends on "peer group" effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the second stage they fix their tuition fees. We examine how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168623
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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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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
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Privatization Discontent and Its Determinants: Evidence from Latin America
Checchi, Daniele; Florio, Massimo; Carrera, Jorge - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this … countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a privatization dataset on the same countries, including sectoral … variables as controls.. Our main finding is that disagreement with privatization is more likely when the respondent is poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703277
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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 while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822644
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Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002818
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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566810
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Neighborhood Dynamics and the Housing Price Effects of Spatially Targeted Economic Development Policy
Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Neighborhoods are the result of a complicated interplay between residential choice, housing supply and the influences of the larger metropolitan system on its constituent parts. We model this interplay as a system of reduced-form equations in order to examine the effects of a generous spatially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014663
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Does Local Business Ownership Insulate Cities from Economic Shocks?
Kolko, Jed; Neumark, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses – namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015470
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Empowerment Zones, Neighborhood Change and Owner Occupied Housing
Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper examines the effects of a generous, spatially-targeted economic development policy (the federal Empowerment Zone program) on local neighborhood characteristics and on the neighborhood quality of life, taking into account the interactions amongst the policy, changes in neighborhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762160