, exploiting revisions in Indonesia’s highly-granular negative investment list, and spatial variation in the exposure of the …, explaining about one-tenth of the aggregate employment increases observed between 2006 and 2016 in Indonesia. These employment …

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 …

We assess whether imperfect knowledge of labor regulation hinders job creation at small and medium-sized firms. We … partner with a labor law expert that provides information about labor regulation via newsletters and access to a specialized … regulation is a constraint to hiring and increased optimal employment level. …

the law or labor regulation is exogenous to immigration. To test this assumption, we build a novel workers' protection … measure based on 36 labor law variables that capture labor regulation over a sample of 70 developed and developing countries … result: immigrants' norms and experience of labor regulation influence the evolution of host countries labor law regulation …

informalization of the urban labor market. Enforcement of the law, however, varies substantially across cities. The paper analyzes the … determinants of worker satisfaction with the enforcement of the law, the propensity of workers to have a labor contract, workers …