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Privatisation in Developing Countries : What are the Lessons of Recent Experience?

Estrin, Saul - 2016

This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...

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Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires?

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Lochner, Benjamin; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2021

This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. We combine data on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet availability has no major impact on the stability of new...

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Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2018

This paper studies effects of the introduction of a new digital mass medium on reemployment of unemployed job seekers. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with individual register data on the unemployed in Germany. We address endogeneity by...

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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation

Wang, Tianyi - 2023

Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation in access to telegraphed news from Washington. I find that access to … hundred small-town weekly newspapers from the 1840s shows that the improved access to news from Washington led newspapers to … increased political participation. I find little evidence that access to telegraphed news from Washington affected party vote …

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Telecommunications Dynamics, Output and Employment

Jungmittag, Andre - 2014

In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic production function is the analytical starting point...

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ICT Use in the Developing World : An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie David; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2021

Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries and across developing countries. To identify the...

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The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2011

This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with...

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Does the Use of Worker Flows Improve the Analysis of Establishment Turnover? Evidence from German Administrative Data

Hethey-Maier, Tanja - 2013

Economists have long been interested in analyzing entries and exits of establishments. In many countries administrative datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and disaggregate level. However, administrative datasets are not without problems: restructuring and...

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Marketmaking Middlemen

Gautier, Pieter - 2016

This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a middleman mode where an intermediary holds inventories which...

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Child Care Markets, Parental Labor Supply, and Child Development

Berlinski, Samuel G. - 2020

We develop and estimate a model of child care markets that endogenizes both demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the supply side, child care providers make entry, price,...

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