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Employment Outcomes and the Interaction between Product and Labor Market Deregulation : Are They Substitutes or Complements?
Fiori, Giuseppe - 2007
labor market regulation is high. Moreover, there is evidence in our sample that product market deregulation promotes labor … countries over the period 1980-2002, we present evidence that product market deregulation is more effective at the margin when … market deregulation. We show that these results are mostly consistent with the basic predictions of a standard bargaining …
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Before it Gets Better : The Short-Term Employment Costs of Regulatory Reforms
Bassanini, Andrea - 2017
on cyclical conditions: the employment cost of deregulation is higher in economic downturns, negligible in good times …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947130
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Deregulating Teacher Labor Markets
Burgess, Simon M. - 2019
A common feature of public sector labor markets is the use of pay scales. This paper examines how the removal of pay scales impacts productivity, by exploiting a reform that compelled all schools in England to replace pay scales with school-designed performance related pay schemes. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863357
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Structural Reform in Germany
Krebs, Tom - 2016
full-day child care and full-day schooling, and iii) the further deregulation of the professional service sector. The … deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany.Policy reforms i) and ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996554
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Do Changes in Regulation Affect Temporary Agency Workers' Job Satisfaction?
Nivalainen, Henna - 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/10013028176
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Reform Redux : Measurement, Determinants and Reversals
Campos, Nauro F. - 2006
We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic impacts. We find that GDP growth determines external liberalization and privatization, concentration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780267
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Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle
Ebell, Monique - 2006
We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main … 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/10012782768
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Deregulation in a Time of Pandemic : Does Pollution Increase Coronavirus Cases or Deaths?
Persico, Claudia - 2020
The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about whether increases in pollution could cause...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834484
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A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation
Dolado, Juan Jose; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2007
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes less strict dismissal procedures for specific groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous workers in order to analyze this feature of EPL. We use the model to analyze the effects of reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051630
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On the Reversibility of Structural Reforms
Campos, Nauro F. - 2012
What are the factors that explain reversals in the implementation of structural reforms? Our main hypothesis is that reversals in different reforms are driven by different factors. This paper uses new reform indicators and presents novel evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106946