The received view pins the adoption of labor regulation before 1914 on domestic forces. Using directed dyad-year event … labor regulation of partners because intraindustry trade was important. The New World exported less differentiated products …

We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security … generous social security systems. Socialist and French legal origin countries have sharply higher levels of labor regulation …. Heavier regulation of labor is associated with a larger unofficial economy, lower labor force participation, and higher …

We approach the design of anti-discriminatory labor market regulation as a delegation problem. A private firm (the … their match with firm. A benevolent and unbiased labor market authority (the principal) enacts a hiring regulation (a direct …-revelation mechanism without transfers) in order to reduce the impact of the firm's bias on its hiring behavior. The hiring regulation is …

This paper focuses on three large Continental European countries: France, Germany, and Italy. These countries have …

This paper examines the performance of the German economy and the role of the regulation and welfare state policies in …

U.S. and Germany …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …