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Wage Determination : Privatised, New Private and State Owned Companies. Empirical Evidence from Panel Data
Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Bishop, Kate - 2003
This paper examines the determinants of wage pressure in large companies, including ownership characteristics and the impact of regional labour markets. By using a panel of 329 Polish largest firms during the period 1997-2001, we find evidence of rent sharing activities, however there is also...
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Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure : Evidence from Firm Personnel Records
Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021
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 …
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Does gender really matter? : an analysis of Jena University scientists collaboration with industry and non-profit-partners
Stoetzer, Matthias-Wolfgang (contributor);  … - 2014 - [Online-Ausg.]
complicated story than gender differences of productivity or simple discrimination. As to collaboration activities of female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439876
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Privatization and Efficiency : Industry Effects of the Sale of British Airways
Eckel, Catherine C. - 2011
We analyze the effect of privatization on the performance of British Airways by examining the privatization's impact on … Airways' privatization, implying expectation of a more competitive British Airways. Closer rivals of British Airways … significantly upon privatization. The results suggest that a change from government to private ownership improves economic …
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Experience of Privatisation, Regulation and Competition : Lessons for Governments
Davies, Lesley - 2006
through the more conventional method of examining productivity gains, it considers the distribution of the broader benefits …
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Objectives and Incentives : Evidence from the Privatisation of Great Britain's Power Plants
Triebs, Thomas - 2020
Does privatisation increase firm productivity because the private owner's objective is different, or because she is … better able to control management? Is privatisation sufficient to improve productivity, or is it only effective in … productivity. And assuming that effective competition was only introduced after privatisation, we are able to separately identify …
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The Privatization of Bankruptcy : Evidence from Financial Distress in the Shipping Industry
Franks, Julian R. - 2020
A generally accepted view is that sophisticated bankruptcy procedures are required to mitigate coordination failures and fire sale discounts arising from financial distress. In this paper, we study an industry not subject to mandatory bankruptcy procedures; instead, the shipping industry has...
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The Uk's Privatisation Experiment : The Passage of Time Permits a Sober Assessment
Parker, David - 2021
This paper looks at the UK's privatisation experiment, which began from the late 1970s. It considers the background to the UK's privatisations, which industries were privatised and how, and summarises the results of studies of performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319484
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Privatisations as price reforms : evaluating consumers' welfare changes in the UK
Brau, Rinaldo; Florio, Massimo - 2002
This paper analyses the effects on consumers' welfare of the privatisation policy carried out in the UK since 1979. The approach we follow sees the privatisation of a State owned enterprise within the broader framework of the "policy reform" theory (Drèze and Stern, 1990). By adopting this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597634
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The abnormal returns of UK privatisations : from underpricing to outperformance
Florio, Massimo; Manzoni, Katiuscia - 2002
This paper offers a review and discussion of the evidence concerning the underpricing and long run performance of British PIPOs (Privatisation Initial Public Offerings) between 1977-1996, i.e. from the first privatisation under a Labour Government (British Petroleum), until the last ones by a...
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