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 …

other year in post-war Germany. There are also clear signs that the crisis is causing severe long-term economic damage …

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 …

compares three occupations in the housing sector with very different wage setting institutions, real estate agents, architects …

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 …

innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to …

workers: civilian scientists and engineers in U.S. Department of Defense laboratories. In contrast to the private sector …