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An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets where the US has a comparative advantage feature...
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Public, Private or Both? Analysing Factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists
Cheng, Terence Chai - 2013
This paper investigates the factors influencing the allocation of time between public and private sectors by medical specialists. A discrete choice structural labour supply model is estimated, where specialists choose from a set of job packages that are characterised by the number of working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072167
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Contracting Out Mandatory Counselling and Training for Long-Term Unemployed : Private For-Profit or Non-Profit, or Keep it Public?
Cockx, Bart - 2015
This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...
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Firm Ownership and Rent Sharing
Monteiro, Natália P. - 2010
We analyse – theoretically and empirically – how private versus public ownership of firms affects the degree of rent sharing between firms and their workers. Using a particularly rich linked employer-employee dataset from Portugal, covering a large number of corporate ownership changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144082
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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 Demand for Variety : A Household Production Perspective
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2007
Economists have devoted substantial attention to firms' supply of variety, but little to consumers' demand for variety. Employing the framework of home production, we trace differences in demand to differences in the opportunity costs of activities, which are associated with investments in human...
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Differences in Positions Along a Hierarchy : Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model
Gobillon, Laurent - 2017
We propose an assignment model in which positions along a hierarchy are attributed to individuals depending on their characteristics. Our theoretical framework can be used to study differences in assignment and outcomes across groups and we show how it can motivate decomposition and...
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Co-Movements between Public and Private Wages in the EU : Which Factors Play a Role?
Marzinotto, Benedicta - 2016
This paper assesses the relationship between government and manufacturing wages. We find that the long-run relation between the two wages is stronger when the government is a large employer. Manufacturing wages are better aligned with productivity and unemployment when public wages, to which...
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The Impact of Public Employment : Evidence from Bonn
Becker, Sascha O. - 2018
This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930943
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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2010
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economyﾒs best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a perfectly...
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