evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the likelihood of privatization reversals, (b) worsened terms of trade increase … wages and prices. -- reform reversals ; price liberalization ; trade liberalization ; privatization ; political economy …

This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect on female employment of labor market deregulation by using the … 1985 amendments to the Labor Standards Law (LSL) in Japan as a natural experiment. The original LSL of 1947 prohibited … of labor market deregulation. Furthermore the 1985 treatment is found to have a lasting and growing impact on female …

elastic to net post-tax real wages, and hence reduced by taxation. In a setting where preferences are isoelastic, deregulation … regulation for some goods. I provide sufficient conditions for deregulation, i.e. a general reduction in price floors, to be …

We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …

data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells … majority privatized versus state-owned firms. The gap increases with time since privatization, reaching about 15-17% five years … after privatization. It also increases with calendar time although recent privatizations are associated with smaller …

one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A natural experiment - the massive privatization process in post …-Soviet countries - allows correcting potential self-selection bias. Industry-specific privatization probabilities are assigned to …