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This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current and new consumers. Using household budget survey data for 2015/16 for Ethiopia and assuming a reform scenario that dilutes the market share of the state-owned monopoly to 45...
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This paper evaluates the impact on temporary agency workers' job satisfaction of a reform that considerably changed regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a difference-in-difference and matching approach and...
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elastic to net post-tax real wages, and hence reduced by taxation. In a setting where preferences are isoelastic, deregulation … regulation for some goods. I provide sufficient conditions for deregulation, i.e. a general reduction in price floors, to be …
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We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …
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In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital … services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic … production function is the analytical starting point for our interdependent analysis of output, use of telecommunications and …
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It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development. …
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Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...
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This paper asks how deregulation intended to promote competition in the commercial banking industry affected the … over time to identify the effects of deregulation. Banking deregulation had no effect on compensation levels or inequality …, between-establishment inequality increased dramatically. Deregulation also led to increases in inequality among managers …
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We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic impacts. We find that GDP growth determines external liberalization and privatization, concentration...
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