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Are Immigrants Complements or Substitutes? Evidence from the Audit Industry

Aobdia, Daniel - 2016

Extensive debate exists among policy makers and economists about the employment of highly skilled immigrants in the U.S. It remains unclear whether these immigrants perform complementary tasks in addition to their substitutive role relative to native graduates. Empirical studies examining these...

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Switching Costs and Market Power in the Auditing Industry : Evidence from a Structural Approach

Guo, Qiang; Koch, Christopher; Zhu, Aiyong - 2022

This study provides novel evidence on the magnitude of switching costs in auditing. We use a discrete choice approach to infer switching costs from clients' auditor choices. The demand estimation reveals that switching costs matter and that they differ by the direction with switching from...

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Determinants of Romanians' migration within the European Union : static and dynamic panel gravity approaches

Davidescu, Adriana Ana Maria; Strat, Vasile Alecsandru; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 46, pp. 621-639

The 1st of January 2007 marked Romania’s accession to the European Union (EU) and represented its 'ticket' to a free … access to the common market. This soon evolved into an important trigger for the increased migration flows from Romania … – emerged with the integration - but also the existing socio-economic disparities between Romania and the more developed western …

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The Changing Demand for Skills : Evidence from the Transition

Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - 2004

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...

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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001

productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to …

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Political Selection of Firms into Privatization Programs. Evidence from Romanian Comprehensive Data

Szentpéteri, Ádám; Telegdy, Álmos - 2009

Exploiting a unique institutional feature of the early Romanian privatization setup, when a group of firms was explicitly barred from any privatization, we test how politicians select firms into privatization. Using comprehensive data that includes all firms inherited from socialism, we estimate...