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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871988
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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration : the case of occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130116
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Heterogeneous effects of credit constraints on SMEs' employment : evidence from the Great Recession
Cornille, David; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2018
This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks' financial health following the 2008 crisis is used as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785728
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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470617