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productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large … firm fixed effects. These studies test for a difference in productivity between exporters and non-exporters at the … conditional mean of the productivity distribution. However, if firms are heterogeneous, it is possible that the size of the …
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attributed to product market deregulation. Our quantitative analysis suggests that under individual bargaining, a decrease of … less than two-tenths of a percentage point of unemployment rates can be attributed to product market deregulation, a …
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What are the factors that explain reversals in the implementation of structural reforms? Our main hypothesis is that reversals in different reforms are driven by different factors. This paper uses new reform indicators and presents novel evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the...
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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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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 …
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Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset on reforms in the financial, capital, public, and...
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In this paper, we estimate a model of labor market dynamics among individuals in Romania using panel data for three …
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This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to the OECD, taken at five year intervals over the period 1985-2000. Using an exploratory factor analysis, we are able to distinguish between two dimensions of financial...
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1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the public-private sector wage gap with Mincer wage … and unobservable characteristics of the individuals using the panel feature of the data with a fixed effects model. We …
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We consider estimation of a dynamic distribution regression panel data model with heterogeneous coefficients across …
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