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 …

, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform …

in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …

, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …

We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …

evidence of increased competition in a subset of labor markets …

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 …

full-day child care and full-day schooling, and iii) the further deregulation of the professional service sector. The … deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany.Policy reforms i) and ii …