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Privatization discontent and its determinants: evidence from Latin America
Checchi, Daniele; Florio, Massimo; Carrera, Jorge - 2005
Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this … countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a privatization dataset on the same countries, including sectoral … variables as controls. Our main finding is that disagreement with privatization is more likely when the respondent is poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267576
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Foreign direct investment and structural reforms: evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America
Campos, Nauro F.; Kinoshita, Yuko - 2008
This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268588
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Employment and wage effects of privatization: evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268760
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Privatization and changes in the wage structure: evidence from firm personnel records
Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269136
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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe: an east-west comparison
Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008
This study compares the structure and determinants of inter-industry wage differentials in Eastern and Western European countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269046
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The dynamics of women's labour supply in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2010
This paper investigates cyclicality in women's labour supply motivated by the hypothesis that it contributes to smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We use comparable individual data on about 1.1 million women in 63 developing and transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269754
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Teachers' salaries in Latin America: How much are they (under or over) paid?
Mizala, Alejandra; Ñopo, Hugo - 2011
This paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in Latin America circa 2007. These labor earnings differences, attributed to observable socio-demographic and job characteristics, are assessed using a matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280665
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Trends in economic research: an international perspective
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
and rely on a very comprehensive database of scientific journals, to provide a cross-country comparison of the evolution … of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269503
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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012
sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282226
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Comparing labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US: New results
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 2012
We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and … Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287662