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Firm Entry Deregulation, Competition and Returns to Education and Skill

Fernandes, Ana P.; Ferreira, Priscila; Winters, L. Alan - Núcleo de Investigação em Microeconomia Aplicada … - 2013

This paper studies the effect of firm entry deregulation on the returns to skill and education. We use matched employer …-employee data for the universe of workers and firms in Portugal and exploit a comprehensive episode of entry deregulation, unique in …

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The Effect of Competition on Managers' Compensation: Evidence From a Quasi-natural Experiment

Fernandes, Ana P.; Ferreira, Priscila; Winters, L. Alan - Núcleo de Investigação em Microeconomia Aplicada … - 2014

deregulation, decreased the sensitivity of pay to performance of CEOs and other managers, with no significant effects found for …

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Labor market reform and wage inequality in Korea

Kim, Hyeon-Kyeong; Skott, Peter - Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - 2014

Temporary workers make up a sizeable part of the labor force in many countries and typically receive wages that are significantly lower than their permanent counterparts. This paper uses an efficiency wage model to explain the wage gap between temporary and permanent workers. High-performing...

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Cause and cure of the crisis

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Keynesianism first to monetarism and then to neoliberalism, and now ‘muddling through’. The deregulation of financial markets …

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Deposit interest rate ceilings as credit supply shifters: bank level evidence on the effects of Regulation Q

Koch, Christoffer - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 2014

deregulation and thus weakened the credit channel of monetary transmission since the early 1980s. …

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‘Regulated deregulation’ of local bus services—An appraisal of international developments

van de Velde, Didier; Wallis, Ian - In: Research in Transportation Economics 39 (2013) 1, pp. 21-33

The deregulation of the British bus sector (outside London) in 1986 was the start of a debate on the merits of … ‘deregulation’ and ‘competitive tendering’. The period that followed was rich in lessons. New Zealand was at the time the only other …

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Public firm incentives under asymmetric information and prospect of deregulation and privatization

Huric Larsen, J.F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Governments dislike poorly performing public firms and often see deregulation and privatisation as a way to improve … asymmetries that makes the regulator unable to achieve first best during regulation, is also the cause of deregulation and … privatization failure. The effect on public firm incentives from introducing deregulation as a consequence from choosing a specific …

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Workshop 4 Report: Governance, ownership and competition in deregulated public transport markets

van de Velde, Didier; Augustin, Katrin - In: Research in Transportation Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 237-244

countries such as Japan, New Zealand and Sweden. Emerging evidence on the liberalisation and deregulation of long-distance and …

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Performance, profit and consumer sovereignty in the English deregulated bus market

Cowie, Jonathan - In: Research in Transportation Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 255-262

The pure free market will theoretically result in economic efficiency being achieved. At the heart of this proposition is the idea of consumer sovereignty, where producers that best meet the material wants of consumers will be the most successful. With some notable exceptions however, few...

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Evaluating the long term impacts of transport policy: The case of bus deregulation revisited

Preston, John; Almutairi, Talal - In: Research in Transportation Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 263-269

In a previous paper in this journal, we suggested that the bus reforms that were implemented in Britain from the mid-1980s onwards were welfare positive for both London and for the rest of Great Britain outside London (Preston & Almutairi, 2013). However, we cautioned that this work was...

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