The EU Services Directive was adopted in 2006 to foster competition in services across Europe. However, progress in …

Labor market deregulation, intended to boost productivity and employment, is one plausible, yet little studied, driver … the impact of job protection deregulation in a sample of 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2015, using a newly … grounded in theory-namely that job protection deregulation should have larger negative effects in industries characterized by …

the responses of sectoral employment to large job protection deregulation shocks depend crucially on the state of the …

This paper explores the macroeconomic impacts of labor and product market deregulation using a small open-economy model … product market deregulation, are good at reducing short-term costs. Finally, concerning the speed of adjustment, it is usually …

markets. Along with increasing GDP and employment, deregulation also leads to lower informality and greater product market …

full-day child care and full-day schooling, and iii) the further deregulation of the professional services sector. The … deregulation reform are relatively small due to the smal size of professional services in Germany. Policy reforms i) and ii) have …