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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153059
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Culture and adult financial literacy: evidence from the United States
Davoli, Maddalena; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2020
Using a US nationally representative sample of over 6,000 adults from 26 countries of ancestry, we find a strong association between their financial literacy in the US and the financial literacy level in their self-reported country of ancestry. More specifically, if an individual from a country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237342
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003481858
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230732
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665022
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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 compensation structure for banking employees. Using establishment-based data from the Employment Cost Index Survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, I obtain measures of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278941
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A post-deregulation analysis of wages in US freight transportation
Habermalz, Steffen (contributor);  … - 2007
"After a period of regulatory changes in the early 1980s we are faced with "new" freight transportation labor markets in the U.S. Using data from the 1984-1999 Current Population Survey, we examine trends in the wages of workers within freight transportation, with a focus on wage differentials...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003429625
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Entrepreneurship in the United States
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor) - 2007
In this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper relating to the UK. Data on random samples of twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic Monthly files of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003571665
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529493
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532078