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Gender inequality is an acute and persistent problem, especially in developing countries. This paper argues that gender discrimination is an inefficient practice. We model gender discrimination as the complete exclusion of females from the labor market or as the exclusion of females from...
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This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and … on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to … skill through the effect of competition on the sensitivity of profits to cost reductions. I then show empirically that …
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Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional setup suggests to distinguish explicitly union...
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Using linked employer-employee data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey 2001, this paper provides a comprehensive picture of the wage structure in three wage-setting regimes prevalent in the German system of industrial relations. We analyze wage distributions for various labor market...
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stems from more intensive competition, manifested through external economies of scale and longer production runs. We finish …
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This paper examines whether or not hospital competition in a market with fixed reimbursement prices can prompt …. This paper assesses whether this aim has been achieved and competition led to improvements in quality. For our estimation … improved) for patients living in more competitive markets after the introduction of hospital competition in January 2006. Our …
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integration emerges whether there is Cournot or Bertrand competition in the input market. The degree of integration in the …
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This paper centres around the question of ownership of firms and managerial competition and how these affect managers … affected by both ownership and competition since both ownership structure and competition provide bargaining chips to employees … fierce market competition and no lock-in the allocation of ownership does not play a role (as one might expect), provided …
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