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Financial sector regulation and reforms in emerging markets : an overview

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010

as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest … objectives can in fact reinforce one another. I also discuss aspects of macroeconomic policies and cross-border regulation that … regulation ; financial development ; emerging markets ; financial inclusion …

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Exposure to regulation and income inequality in local labor markets : evidence from the U.S. over the past half-century

Stoyanov, Andrey; Zubanov, Nick - 2025

study fills this gap by measuring local exposure to regulation from the industry-relevant articles of U.S. Code of Federal … Regulation linked to local industry employment structure in 741 commuting zones (CZs) in the U.S. over the period 1970 …-2019. Relating our exposure to regulation measure to the CZ-level income inequality, computed from the Census records, we find that …

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Analyzing the extent and influence of occupational licensing on the labor market

Kleiner, Morris M.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2011

This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...

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Politico-economic causes of labor regulation in the United States : rent seeking, alliances, raising Rivals' costs (even lowering one's own?), and interjurisdictional competition

Addison, John T. (contributor) - 2006

This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and …

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Loan regulation and child labor in rural India

Dāśagupta, Bāsaba; Zimmermann, Christian - 2012

We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal …

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The understated "housing shortage" in the United States

Corinth, Kevin; Dante, Hugo - 2022

predictions of economic theory, our estimated housing shortage is uniformly low in areas with low regulation but varies in areas … with high regulation, since a housing shortage requires both stringent regulations and strong housing demand. …

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Wage inequality of US truck drivers

Monaco, Kristen A.; Habermalz, Steffen - 2011

in inequality post-deregulation, as expected given the literature on regulation's impact on the labor market. We also …

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Cross-border spillover : US gun laws and violence in Mexico

Dube, Arindrajit; Dube, Oeindrila; García-Ponce, Omar - 2012

To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban exerted a spillover on gun supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New...

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High on life? : medical marijuana laws and suicide

Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2012

Using state-level data for the period 1990 through 2007, we estimate the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is associated with an almost 5 percent reduction in the total suicide rate, an 11 percent reduction in...

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What are over-the-road truckers paid for? : evidence from an exogenous regulatory change on the role of social comparisons and work organization in wage determination

Burks, Stephen V.; Guy, Frederick - 2012

) ; truckload (TL) ; regulation ; deregulation ; union premium …

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