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 …

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 …

is sufficiently well informed about consumer and firm behavior. -- bounded rationality ; competition ; regulation …

set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment … rate. Labour market deregulation, proxied by the employment protection legislation index, is detrimental to unemployment in …

on cyclical conditions: the employment cost of deregulation is higher in economic downturns, negligible in good times …

This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit … of almost half of Germany's nuclear reactors while safety checks were carried out, and a three-month moratorium on … companies to renewable energies companies in Germany. We moreover find that the joint market capitalization of these firms has …