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Product market regulation and labor market outcomes : how can deregulation create jobs?
Burda, Michael C. - 2000
. Evidence on employment in the retail sector from Germany, the Netherlands and the United States suggests that the regulatory … attributed to product market deregulation, in particular liberalization of shop-closing laws effected in the mid-1990s. I sketch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781500
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Entry barriers and the labor market outcomes of incumbent workers : evidence from a deregulation reform in the German crafts sector
Lergetporer, Philipp; Ruhose, Jens; Simon, Lisa - 2018
We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011921984
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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Giammario, Impullitti; Prat, Julien - 2014
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250120
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Privatisation of network industries in Germany : a disaggregated approach
Knieps, Günter - 2004
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of market-oriented institutional reforms in German network industries. A disaggregated approach is chosen, which differentiates between network services, infrastructure management and network infrastructure. The gradual opening of network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402409
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Labor responses, regulation and business churn
Aloi, Marta; Dixon, Huw; Savagar, Anthony - 2018
We develop a model of sluggish firm entry to explain short-run labor responses to technology shocks. We show that the labor response to technology and its persistence depend on the degree of returns to labor and the rate of firm entry. Existing empirical results support our theory based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011921997
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Airport noise regulation, airline service quality, and social welfare
Brueckner, Jan K. (contributor); Girvin, Raquel (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003379804
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Investment in broadband infrastructure under local deregulation : evidence from the UK broadband market
Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - 2013
This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of … exploit regional differences in deregulation following a 2008 reform. Controlling for initial conditions, first …-difference estimates show that local deregulation increases local investment in infrastructure by both the incumbent and competitors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752995
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Regulation, financial crises, and liberalization traps
Marchionne, Francesco; Pisicoli, Beniamino; Fratianni, … - 2019
To reconcile the mixed empirical results, we develop a theoretical model whose main implication is a concave impact of regulation on the probability of a crisis. We test this relationship by applying a Probit model of a non-linear specification to annual data from 1999 to 2011 drawn from 132...
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Vertical market power in interconnected natural gas and electricity markets
Marks, Levi; Mason, Charles F.; Mohlin, Kristina; … - 2017
New England is at the leading edge of an energy transition in which natural gas is playing an increasingly important role in the US electricity generation mix. In recent years, the region’s wholesale natural gas and electricity markets have experienced severe, simultaneous price spikes. While...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735963
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Autarchy, market disintegration, and health : the mortality and nutritional crisis in Nazi Germany, 1933-1937
Baten, Jörg; Wagner, Andrea - 2002
years of the Nazi period. We find that Germany experienced a substantial increase in mortality rates in most age groups in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511113