regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a …

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

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

deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany. Policy reforms i) and ii … proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of … full-day child care and full-day schooling, and iii) the further deregulation of the professional service sector. The …

deregulation in retail distribution has no (or even positive) short-term employment effects. This discrepancy is likely driven by …

deregulation reduces profits per unit of output, and thereby reduces training. On the other hand, the number of firms increases … European Labour Force Survey to investigate empirically the relationship between product market regulation and training … results are unambiguous and show that an increase in product market deregulation generates a sizeable increase in training …