Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable endogenous growth model with size-contingent regulations. We apply this to population administrative firm panel data from France, where many labor regulations apply to firms...

Are workers in modern economies working "too hard"--would they be better off if an equilibrium with fewer work hours were achieved? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and Koreans over a period when hours of work were cut exogenously because employers suddenly faced an overtime...

China's new Labor Contract Law took effect on January 2008 and required firms to give migrant workers written contracts, strengthened labor protections for workers and contained penalties for firms that did not follow the labor code. This paper uses survey data of migrant workers in the Pearl...

Die deutsche Immobilienwirtschaft ist und bleibt ein wesentlicher Stabilitätsanker der deutschen Wirtschaft. Die Branche wächst seit 2008 um durchschnittlich zwei Prozent pro Jahr und hat damit entscheidend zur schnellen Erholung nach dem Konjunktureinbruch beigetragen. Die hohe Stabilität...