This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from …

evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the likelihood of privatization reversals, (b) worsened terms of trade increase …

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 …

deregulation. Road driver output is individualized, and pay is on the basis of a piece rate (mileage). However, road drivers work … companies paid more than those for TL companies, but in LTL the union earnings premium was maintained following deregulation and …

paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports …, privatization is estimated to have positive effects on productivity-enhancing reallocation, but there is less evidence of such …

We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries … external liberalization and privatization, concentration of political power drives internal liberalization, and democracy … underpins all three. We find that FDI inflows reduce the probability of privatization reversals, labour strikes increase that of …