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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. …
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both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
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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...
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improved after the reform. This is due to the introduction of better quality management, stronger competition among the …
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Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsprobleme des deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert - allerdings sind noch längst nicht alle Schwierigkeiten überwunden. Für die Zukunft besteht die zentrale Herausforderung darin, eine...
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Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …
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Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
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approach regarding the introduction of additional minimum wages in Germany and more generous in-work benefits combined with an …
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This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
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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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