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A positive analysis of targeted employment protection legislation
Dolado, Juan J. (contributor); Jansen, Marcel (contributor);  … - 2007
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes less strict dismissal procedures for specific groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous workers in order to analyze this feature of EPL. We use the model to analyze the effects of reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003540032
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Timing constraints and the allocation of time : the effects of changing shopping hours regulations in the Netherlands
Jacobsen, Joyce P. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
A 1996 change in shopping hours regulations in the Netherlands provides an opportunity to study the effects of timing constraints on total time spent in shopping, working, and other activities as well as the timing of these activities. We develop a simple structural model to make predictions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002422589
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Do changes in regulation affect temporary agency workers' job satisfaction?
Busk, Henna; Jahn, Elke J.; Singer, Christine - 2015
This paper evaluates the impact on temporary agency workers' job satisfaction of a reform that considerably changed regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a difference-in-difference and matching approach and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498616
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Pareto-improving structural reforms
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951457
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Entry barriers and the labor market outcomes of incumbent workers : evidence from a deregulation reform in the German crafts sector
Lergetporer, Philipp; Ruhose, Jens; Simon, Lisa - 2018
We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916534
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Does entry regulation hinder job creation? : evidence from the French retail industry
Bertrand, Marianne; Kramarz, Francis - 2002
Are product market and entry regulation key sources of low employment growth in many European countries? We investigate this question in the context of the French retail trade industry. Since 1974, approval by regional zoning boards has been required for the creation or extension of any large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405774
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Labour and product market reforms : a case for policy complementarity
Amable, Bruno (contributor); Gatti, Donatella (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002115431
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Product markets and paychecks : deregulation's effect on the compensation structure in banking
Wozniak, Abigail K. (contributor) - 2006
This paper asks how deregulation intended to promote competition in the commercial banking industry affected the … over time to identify the effects of deregulation. Banking deregulation had no effect on compensation levels or inequality …, between-establishment inequality increased dramatically. Deregulation also led to increases in inequality among managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278941
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Reform redux : measurement, determinants and reversals
Campos, Nauro (contributor); Horváth, Roman (contributor) - 2006
We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic impacts. We find that GDP growth determines external liberalization and privatization, concentration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310965
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India's approach to capital account liberalization
Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2009
In this paper, I analyze India's approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on financial globalization. India's authorities have taken a cautious and calibrated path to capital account opening, which has served the economy well in terms of reducing its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794018