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Factor adjustments after deregulation: panel evidence from Colombian plants
Eslava, Marcela; Haltiwanger, John; Kugler, Adriana D.; … - 2005
In this paper, we analyze employment and capital adjustments using a panel of plants from Colombia. We allow for nonlinear adjustment of employment to reflect not only adjustment costs of labor but also adjustment costs of capital, and vice-versa. Using data from the Annual Manufacturing Survey,...
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What are over-the-road truckers paid for? Evidence from an exogenous regulatory change on the role of social comparisons and work organization in wage determination
Burks, Stephen V.; Guy, Frederick - 2012
deregulation. Road driver output is individualized, and pay is on the basis of a piece rate (mileage). However, road drivers work … companies paid more than those for TL companies, but in LTL the union earnings premium was maintained following deregulation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282408
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Labour and Product Market Reforms : A Case for Policy Complementarity
Gatti, Donatella; Amable, Bruno - 2004
This paper is a contribution to the debate on policy complementarity in relation to deregulation in the product and … labour markets. We develop a model of dynamic efficiency wages and monopolistic competition. Whereas most of the literature … points toward the gains associated to an increase in product market competition coupled with an increased flexibility of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261939
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Product Market Reforms and Unemployment in Europe
Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - 2001
In this paper we study how promoting product market competition by reducing mark-ups or by increasing productivity are …
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Market orientation and gender wage gaps: an international study
Zweimüller, Martina; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2007
in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268261
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Employment Outcomes and the Interaction Between Product and Labor Market Deregulation: Are They Substitutes or Complements?
Fiori, Giuseppe; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Scarpetta, Stefano; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
countries over the period 1980-2002, we present evidence that product market deregulation is more effective at the margin when … labor market regulation is high. Moreover, there is evidence in our sample that product market deregulation promotes labor … market deregulation. We show that these results are mostly consistent with the basic predictions of a standard bargaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762118
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The Effects of Competition and Equal Treatment Laws on the Gender Wage Differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - 2003
The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …
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Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002
Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262784
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Competitive work environments and social preferences: field experimental evidence from a Japanese fishing community
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Seki, Erika - 2005
as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment … staff who face little competition on the job. Further, after accounting for the possibility of personality-based selection …
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