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Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure : Evidence from Firm Personnel Records

Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021

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 …

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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization : Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - 2021

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 …

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The Distribution of Earnings Under Monopsonistic/Polistic Competition

Thisse, Jacques-François - 2010

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

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A Post-Deregulation Analysis of Wages in U.S. Freight Transportation

Habermalz, Steffen; Monaco, Kristen A. - 2021

evidence of increased competition in a subset of labor markets …

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Deregulating Teacher Labor Markets

Burgess, Simon M. - 2019

A common feature of public sector labor markets is the use of pay scales. This paper examines how the removal of pay scales impacts productivity, by exploiting a reform that compelled all schools in England to replace pay scales with school-designed performance related pay schemes. We find that...

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Nonprofit Wages : Theory and Evidence

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2017

The nonprofit sector's share of wage and salary employment in the U.S. has increased over time, from about 5½ percent in the mid-1990s to 7 percent in 2015. This paper surveys the literature and presents new evidence on the employment and earnings of workers in the nonprofit sector since 1994....

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Competitiveness of Entrepreneurs and Salaried Workers

Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; Sutter, Matthias - 2021

We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants choose between a piece-rate and a tournament scheme either in private or in public. We find that in the private condition entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers,...

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Wage Premia for Newly Hired Employees : Theory and Evidence

Kampkötter, Patrick - 2011

We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm-specific human capital is not too important. The existence and...

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In-Work Benefits and Unemployment

Tonin, Mirco - 2011

In-work benefits are becoming an increasingly relevant labour market policy, gradually expanding in scope and geographical coverage. This paper investigates the equilibrium impact of in-work benefits and contrasts it with the traditional partial equilibrium analysis. We find under which...

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The Direct Incidence of Corporate Income Tax on Wages

Arulampalam, Wiji - 2010

We examine the extent to which taxes on corporate income are directly shifted onto the workforce. We use data on 55,082 companies located in nine European countries over the period 1996-2003. We identify this direct shifting through cross-company variation in tax liabilities, conditional on...

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