contributions to the latter's decisions. Both a shift from national to international regulation and a decrease in trade costs …

This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and …

efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …

Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … labor market: one segment without product and labor market regulation, to which standard immigration models best apply, one … segment in which product and labor market regulation interact, and one segment covering intermediate groups of workers. We …

In this paper, I study the political rationale for labor market regulation. Oligopolists employ raw labor and human … less competition from outside. Then, the fall of income due to wage increases is reduced and labor market regulation …