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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...
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The relationship between economic and political liberalization has received a great deal of attention lately, yet the possibility of a nonlinear relationship and the role of reversals remain largely neglected. Focusing on democratization and financial reform, this paper offers evidence for a...
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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...
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countries over the period 1980-2002, we present evidence that product market deregulation is more effective at the margin when … labor market regulation is high. Moreover, there is evidence in our sample that product market deregulation promotes labor … market deregulation. We show that these results are mostly consistent with the basic predictions of a standard bargaining …
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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...
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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 …
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We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …
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This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect on female employment of labor market deregulation by using the … of labor market deregulation. Furthermore the 1985 treatment is found to have a lasting and growing impact on female …
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Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....
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deregulation in retail distribution has no (or even positive) short-term employment effects. This discrepancy is likely driven by …
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