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Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications
Andonova, Veneta; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2021
It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317235
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Male and Female Labour Force Participation : The Role of Dynamic Adjustments to Changes in Labour Demand, Government Policies and Autonomous Trends
Vendrik, Maarten - 2009
the Netherlands between 1969 and 2004. The results show significant short and long-run effects of labour demand as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155594
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Unequal Chances on the Transitional Labor Market : The Case of the Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert E.; Veenman, Justus - 2021
of (new) inequalities. This paper deals with unequal chances on the transitional labor market in the Netherlands, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316933
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Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms : The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Eichhorst, Werner; Wintermann, Ole - 2021
structured and to what it extent it could influence actual policy-making in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden over the last …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318135
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Competition Reform and Household Welfare : A Microsimulation Analysis of the Telecommunication Sector in Ethiopia
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current and new consumers. Using household budget survey data for 2015/16 for Ethiopia and assuming a reform scenario that dilutes the market share of the state-owned monopoly to 45...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250766
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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Akerman, Anders - 2015
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data with firm-level information on value added, factor inputs and broadband adoption to answer these questions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034624
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The Relative Efficiency of Active Labour Market Policies : Evidence from a Social Experiment and Non-Parametric Methods
Vikström, Johan - 2011
We re-analyze the effects of a Danish active labour market program social experiment that included a range of sub-treatments, including monitoring, job search assistance and training. Previous studies have shown that the overall effect of the experiment is positive. We apply newly developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127727
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Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables
Lechner, Michael - 2011
Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates of typical active labour market programs for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128839
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies
Charlot, Olivier - 2011
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal and informal firms have monopoly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129903
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The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany
Bergemann, Annette - 2011
Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129936