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Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

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Rent Control and Unemployment Duration

Svarer, Michael; Rosholm, Michael; Munch, Jakob Roland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

In this paper we investigate whether rent control affects the functioning of the labour market. Particularly, we focus on the effect of rent control on the length of individual unemployment duration. Theoretically, the effect is ambiguous. Rent control reduces housing mobility and could very...

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Determinants of Financial Rewards from Industry-University Collaboration in South Korea

Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The external circumstances for universities have been changing rapidly. In order to be competitive, survive, and flourish, universities have shown a growing enthusiasm to generate financial revenues externally. The literature refers to this phenomenon as academic capitalism, defined as the...

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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 …

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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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The Gender Education Gap in China: The Power of Water

Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We investigate girls' school dropout rates, bringing forward a novel variable: access to water. We hypothesise that a girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her household has poor access to water. For testing we use data...

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Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...

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Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence

Schiantarelli, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The main purpose of this paper is to provide a critical overview of the recent empirical contributions that use cross country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a brief review of the theoretical literature and of...

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Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico

Arias, Javier; Azuara, Oliver; Bernal, Pedro; Heckman, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of...

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