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It has been recently argued that the informal sector of the labor market in a developing economy shows a dual structure with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation. To test this hypothesis we formulate an econometric model...
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Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past … for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there is rarely an attempt to distinguish between the two concepts … academic outcomes than those whose choice is more limited; and whether Primary schools facing more competition perform better …
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This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current … consumers are more likely to reap the benefits of greater competition. This method represents a powerful tool for supporting the … analysis of competition reforms in developing countries, particularly in sectors known for excluding significant segments of …
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Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with minimum data requirements the direct distributional effects of market … telecommunications and corn products. The results show that increasing competition from four to 12 firms in the mobile telecommunications …
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collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is …
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document that increased competition for university places at elite institutions in the United Kingdom contributes to explain … growing gaps in time investments between college and non-college educated parents. Competition for university places in the UK …
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We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....
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We consider a dual labor market with a frictional formal sector and a competitive informal sector. We show that the size of the informal sector is generally too large compared to the optimal allocation of the workers. It follows that our results give a rationale to informality-reducing policies
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Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school completion of natives in the United States. Immigrant children could compete for schooling resources with native children, lowering the return to native education and discouraging...
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Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, priorstudies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technologyand continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements andmodifications made upon the existing...
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