We study school choice and school efficiency in terms of secondary school completion test scores by utilizing a unique database from Nepal. There are two novel features of our analysis: firstly we allow for heterogeneity among private schools, by distinguishing socially motivated trust-run...

Immigrant workers and their labor force participation in host countries have received critical attention in all concerned disciplines, principally owing to its strong implications for well-being of natives. The aging population in many rich countries and several related and unrelated issues...

There has been increasing ‘flexibilisation,' in the formal labour markets of both developed and developing countries. Labour institutions and globalisation are often taken to be causally related to this phenomenon, but the evidence remains inconclusive. In India, there has been an increasing...

We analyze privatization in a differentiated oligopoly setting with a domestic public firm and foreign profit-maximizing firms. In particular, we examine pricing below marginal cost by public firm, the optimal degree of privatization and, the relationship between privatization and foreign...

We address two questions. First, does the excess entry result of pure oligopoly hold when firms face a substitute good produced by a public firm? Second, what would be the optimal ownership of the public firm? We find that excess entry still occurs, but the excessiveness is largely mitigated due...

Identity neutral hiring is assessed in an ability signaling model. Assuming some employers wrongly perceive one group, the advantaged with more wealth, to have superior productivity over another (the disadvantaged), identity neutral recruitment improves the disadvantaged group's average wage and...