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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001

Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - 2003

The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …

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Environmental regulation and competitiveness: Evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010

According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of dirty goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...

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Spatial decentralization and program evaluation: Theory and an example from Indonesia

Pitt, Mark M.; Menon, Nidhiya - 2010

This paper proposes a novel instrumental variable method for program evaluation that only requires a single cross-section of data on the spatial intensity of programs and outcomes. The instruments are derived from a simple theoretical model of government decision-making in which governments are...

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Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect

Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002

Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...

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The Effects of Competition and Equal Treatment Laws on the Gender Wage Differential

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …

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Empowerment zones, neighborhood change and owner occupied housing

Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - 2008

full effects, and examines the robustness of the effects to alternate estimation strategies. We find strong evidence for …

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Industry Wage Differentials Revisited: A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio …

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How do very open economies absorb large immigration flows? recent evidence from Spanish regions

González Luna, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - 2008

In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows. Between 2001 and 2006 the fraction of the population born abroad more than doubled, increasing from 4.8% to 10.8%. For Spanish provinces with above-median inflows (relative to population), immigration increased the high school...

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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? Evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and the private sector

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...

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