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She works hard for the money: Tackling low pay in sectors dominated by women. Evidence from health and social care

Müller, Torsten - 2019

This working paper provides data confirming that workers in lower-skilled health and social care assistant positions earn considerably less than the national average wage in their country. The publication argues that the wage penalty for working in female-dominated sectors and occupations such...

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Assessing Social Costs of Inefficient Procurement Design

Eklöf, Matias - 2003

procurement auction with asymmetric bidders. We adopt a constrained (piecewise linear) strategy equilibrium concept and estimate … different auction formats. The data is collected from procurement auctions of road painting in Sweden during 1993-99. The … and that an efficient second price auction would lower the expected procurement cost by 2.8 per cent. …

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Procurement Bidding in First-Price and Second-Price Sealed Bid Common Value Auctions

Lunander, Anders - 1999

: Weibull and normal distribution. The optimal bid functions and the expected procurer's cost under both auction formats are … the two auction formats. Using estimates from structural estimation in previous empirical work on first-price auction data … first-price sealed bid auction to a second-price sealed bid auction mechanism is computed. …

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Impact of macro-economic environment on diversification-performance relationship: A cross country study of India and Japan

Purkayastha, Saptarshi - 2013

relationships between product diversification, business group affiliation and firm performance in two major economies in Asia. India … Rumelt (1974) implicitly assumed that the diversification-performance relationship is consistent, regardless of the macro … macroeconomic environments. Further, studies linking diversification with firm performance have been carried out mainly in …

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Real and nominal wage adjustment in open economies

Forslund, Anders; Gottfries, Nils; Westermark, Andreas - 2005

How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural factors in the labour market? How important is nominal wage rigidity and exchange rate policy for the medium term evolution of real wages and competitiveness? To answer these...

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Time for Fishing: Bargaining Power in the Baltic Swedish Cod Fishery

Blomquist, Johan; Hammarlund, Cecilia; Waldo, Staffan - 2013

How are market conditions affected by a change in fishery regulations? Who benefits and who loses? The paper discusses the price effects of a reform in the Swedish Baltic cod fishery where vessels using active gear were given annual quotas rather than the previously applied quarterly quotas. We...

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Labor Market Opportunities and Women's Decision Making Power within Households

Majlesi, Kaveh - 2014

Despite the perceived importance of labor market opportunities in shaping married women's outside option, and their bargaining power within households as a result, this link has received very little empirical attention. Using longitudinal data on who makes the decision on a wide range of issues...

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Pipeline Power

Hubert, Franz; Cobanli, Onur - 2012

We use cooperative game theory to analyze the impact of three controversial pipeline projects on the power structure in the Eurasian trade of natural gas. Two of them, Nord Stream and South Stream, allow Russian gas to bypass transit countries, Ukraine and Belarus. Nord Stream's strategic value...

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What do we know about the labor share and the profit share? Part II: Empirical studies

Giovannoni, Olivier - 2014

In this second part of our study we survey the rapidly expanding empirical literature on the determinants of the functional distribution of income. Three major strands emerge: technological change, international trade, and financialization. All contribute to the fluctuations of the labor share,...

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Auction design and the success of national 3G spectrum auctions

Madden, Gary; Sağlam, Ismail; Morey, Aaron - 2010

capita winning bid (per Mhz) values to auction design variables (license award process), national and mobile market …. The analysis reveals that most auction design variables independently impact on realized 3G spectrum auction revenue in a … manner consistent with auction theory. …

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