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How does entry regulation influence entry into self-employment and occupational mobility?
Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2009
We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and … Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self … changes after unforeseen economic shocks. -- Entry regulation ; self-employment ; occupational mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860696
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Analyzing the extent and influence of occupational licensing on the labor market
Kleiner, Morris M.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2011
This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230732
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Young, single, but not free : the EU market for financial services
Booth, P. - In: Breaking up is hard to do ... : Britain and Europe's …, (pp. 253-273). 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499450
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Cross-border spillover : US gun laws and violence in Mexico
Dube, Arindrajit; Dube, Oeindrila; García-Ponce, Omar - 2012
To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban exerted a spillover on gun supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681288
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How policy changes affect shareholder wealth : the case of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
Betzer, André; Doumet, Markus; Rinne, Ulf - 2011
This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312120
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A retrospective look at rescuing and restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
Goolsbee, Austan; Krueger, Alan B. - 2015
This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488826
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Politico-economic causes of labor regulation in the United States : rent seeking, alliances, raising Rivals' costs (even lowering one's own?), and interjurisdictional competition
Addison, John T. (contributor) - 2006
This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003481858
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Rent building, rent sharing : a panel country-industry empirical analysis
Askenazy, Philippe; Cette, Gilbert; Maarek, Paul - 2012
, decrease with anti-competitive regulation in upstream sectors and increase with the industry specific output gap; ii) decrease … with the national output gap, increase with the national employment rate and decrease with employment protection regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534964
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The effect of statutory sick pay regulations on workers' health
Halla, Martin; Pech, Susanne; Zweimüller, Martina - 2015
Social insurance programs typically comprise sick leave insurance. An important policy parameter is how the cost of sick leave are shared between workers, firms, and the social security system. We show that this sharing rule affects not only absence behavior, but also workers' subsequent health....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532515
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Regulation and UK retailing productivity : evidence from micro data
Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009
We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. -- Productivity ; retail ; regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003814316