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 …

Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement …

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable ….4% lower due to the regulation, a 2.2% consumption equivalent welfare loss. Four-fifths of this loss is due to lower innovation … changes in the direction of R&D, and find that regulation's negative effects only matter for incremental innovation (as …

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 …

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

We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and … Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self … changes after unforeseen economic shocks. -- Entry regulation ; self-employment ; occupational mobility …