The paper focuses on markets in which firms with different ownership structures compete with each other in a one-period Nash-Cournot setting. In particular the market outcome of a duopoly of one marketing cooperative and one private wholesaler (cooperative mixed duopoly) is compared to the...

In this study gender wage differentials in private and public sector jobs in Austria are calculated. Occupational attainment is considered as endogeneous by the use of an ordered response model. Results show that wage discrimination is also present in the public sector,though on a lower level....

The pension structures of the Nordic countries are often described as statist structures. Generous public pensions are supposedly crowding out private pension alternatives (including occupational pensions). It is argued that these systems unite the pension-political interests of workers and...