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Wage Determination : Privatised, New Private and State Owned Companies. Empirical Evidence from Panel Data
Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Bishop, Kate - 2003
This paper examines the determinants of wage pressure in large companies, including ownership characteristics and the impact of regional labour markets. By using a panel of 329 Polish largest firms during the period 1997-2001, we find evidence of rent sharing activities, however there is also...
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Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure : Evidence from Firm Personnel Records
Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021
We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and … one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus …, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324911
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Does gender really matter? : an analysis of Jena University scientists collaboration with industry and non-profit-partners
Stoetzer, Matthias-Wolfgang (contributor);  … - 2014 - [Online-Ausg.]
complicated story than gender differences of productivity or simple discrimination. As to collaboration activities of female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439876
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The Missing Shock: The Macroeconomic Impact of British Privatisation
Florio, Massimo; Grasseni, Mara - 2004
productivity trends. …
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The missing shock : the macroeconomic impact of British privatisation
Florio, Massimo; Grasseni, Mara - 2004
productivity trends. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606658
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The impacts of private hospital entry on the public market for elective care in England
Kelly, Elaine; Stoye, George - 2020
This paper examines the impacts of private hospital entry on publicly funded elective care in England. From 2006, private hospitals were encouraged to enter certain publicly funded markets to compete with existing public hospitals and stimulate quality improvements. Studying elective hip...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149593
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Choice and competition in the welfare state : home care as the ideal quasi-market
Bergman, Mats A.; Jordahl, Henrik; Lundberg, Sofia - 2018
We study a reform by which a standardized model of choice and competition was introduced in tax-financed home care in a majority of Swedish municipalities. The market for home care is of particular interest since it is close to the ideal quasi-market. For identification, we exploit the different...
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Experience of Privatisation, Regulation and Competition : Lessons for Governments
Davies, Lesley - 2006
through the more conventional method of examining productivity gains, it considers the distribution of the broader benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733357
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Objectives and Incentives : Evidence from the Privatisation of Great Britain's Power Plants
Triebs, Thomas - 2020
Does privatisation increase firm productivity because the private owner's objective is different, or because she is … better able to control management? Is privatisation sufficient to improve productivity, or is it only effective in … productivity. And assuming that effective competition was only introduced after privatisation, we are able to separately identify …
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The Privatization of Bankruptcy : Evidence from Financial Distress in the Shipping Industry
Franks, Julian R. - 2020
A generally accepted view is that sophisticated bankruptcy procedures are required to mitigate coordination failures and fire sale discounts arising from financial distress. In this paper, we study an industry not subject to mandatory bankruptcy procedures; instead, the shipping industry has...
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