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Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self …We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and … differences between regulated occupations and unregulated occupations in East Germany to the corresponding differences in West …
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proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of … deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany.Policy reforms i) and ii …
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regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a …
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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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We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …
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We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and …
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care facilities. The regulation may reduce children's consumption of sugary beverages in the short run and weaken their … regulation by providing sugary drinks at home. Using detailed scanner data of grocery purchases, we find that affected California … households increased their juice purchases right after the regulation became effective. However, this increase disappears after …
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This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
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The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1978 expanded employee age protections to age 70, making the widespread practice by U.S. firms of mandating retirement at age 65 illegal. Building on the work of Lazear (1979), we propose that the law change not only weakened the long-term employment...
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For two different regulatory standards, we examine the optimal minimum wage in a competitive labour market when the government is uncertain about supply and demand. Solutions are related to underlying supply and demand conditions, and the extent of uncertainty and of rationing efficiency. We...
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