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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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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
economic deregulation. Road driver output is individualized, and pay is on the basis of a piece rate (mileage). However, road … deregulation and union coverage fell slowly, while in TL both the union differential and union coverage fell sharply. We review …) ; truckload (TL) ; regulation ; deregulation ; union premium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532078
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681288
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Product market deregulation and the US employment miracle
Ebell, Monique (contributor); Häfke, Christian (contributor) - 2006
attributed to product market deregulation. Our quantitative analysis suggests that under individual bargaining, a decrease of … less than two tenths of a percentage point of unemployment rates can be attributed to product market deregulation, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003274242
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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 … distribution of truck drivers has been dominated by the changing structure of the occupation post-deregulation and largely immune …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009125036
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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