. More competition-friendly regulations, as measured by the OECDs' Product Market Regulation (PMR) indicator improve economic … businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …

The paper undertakes a dynamic analysis for service quality in the electricity distribution in Brazil between 2010 and …

shadow economy are tax policies and state regulation. The size of the shadow economy was decreasing over 1999 to 2007 from 34 …

This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of the workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation and as long as … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … exemption and the unemployment benefit payments affect domestic wage setting in the same way as in the absence of outsourcing …

We analyze the questions associated with flexible outsourcing both with committed and flexible profit sharing under … imperfect domestic labour markets. How does profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? What is the relationship between … outsourcing cost, profit sharing and equilibrium unemployment, when profit sharing is also a part of the compensation schemes in …

the public concern can be addressed that international fragmentation and outsourcing to low wage countries lead to … outsourcing and critically assess the role of political intervention that aims to reduce unemployment benefits under …

Authorities often lack information for efficient regulation of the commons. This paper derives a criterion comparing …