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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 data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...

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The impact of regulation on innovation

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable ….4% lower due to the regulation, a 2.2% consumption equivalent welfare loss. Four-fifths of this loss is due to lower innovation … changes in the direction of R&D, and find that regulation's negative effects only matter for incremental innovation (as …

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Privatisation in developing countries : what are the lessons of recent experience?

Estrin, Saul; Pelletier, Adeline - 2016

This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...

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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...

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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...

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Doctors without borders : the returns to an occupational license for Soviet immigrant physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - 2002

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe: 1995 - 2001

Kahn, Lawrence M. (contributor) - 2007

Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...

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Impacts of the Clean Air Act on the power sector from 1938-1994: anticipation and adaptation

Clay, Karen; Jha, Akshaya; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, … - 2021

The passage of landmark government regulation is often the culmination of evolving social pressure and incremental … policy change. During this process, firms may preemptively adjust behavior in anticipation of impending regulation, making it … 1970 Clean Air Act (CAA) on the power sector. This unique long panel provides us an extended pre-regulation benchmark …

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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....

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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....

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