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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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Education Quality, Green Technology, and the Economic Impact of Carbon Pricing
Macdonald, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry A. - 2022
Carbon pricing is increasingly used by governments to reduce emissions. The effect of carbon pricing on economic outcomes as well as mitigating factors has been studied extensively since the early 1990s. One mitigating factor that has received less attention is education quality. If...
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Socioeconomic Inequality in Low-Carbon Technology Adoption
Burlinson, Andrew; Davillas, Apostolos; Giulietti, Monica - 2023
The widespread consumer adoption of low-carbon technologies (LCTs) is a cornerstone of net zero targets worldwide, however LCTs may not be equally distributed across socioeconomic characteristics. Our paper contributes to the literature by exploring socioeconomic inequality in LCT adoption and...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012805
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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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Privatisation in Developing Countries : What are the Lessons of Recent Experience?
Estrin, Saul - 2016
This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980301
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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
Almeida, Rita - 2007
This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological...
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Globalization and Employment : Imported Skill Biased Technological Change in Developing Countries
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - 2021
This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317026
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Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages
Afonso, António - 2010
We examine the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee in OECD countries. The growth of public sector wages and of public sector employment positively affects the growth of private sector wages. Moreover, total factor productivity, the unemployment rate and the degree...
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