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 …

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 …

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

, 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 …

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 …