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Entry Barriers and the Labor Market Outcomes of Incumbent Workers : Evidence from a Deregulation Reform in the German Crafts Sector
Lergetporer, Philipp - 2018
We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909864
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Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2014
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058310
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Structural Reform in Germany
Krebs, Tom - 2016
deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany.Policy reforms i) and ii … proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of … full-day child care and full-day schooling, and iii) the further deregulation of the professional service sector. The …
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Do Changes in Regulation Affect Temporary Agency Workers' Job Satisfaction?
Nivalainen, Henna - 2015
regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028176
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Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use : The Case of Transportation Policies
Zenou, Yves - 2014
We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steady-state equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a transportation policy that improves the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069026
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How Do Users Value a Network Expansion? Evidence from the Public Transit System in Singapore
Fesselmeyer, Eric - 2016
We estimate the network externality of a public transit system by examining the effects of its expansion on the housing market. Our results show that a major expansion of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system increased the price of apartments within 0.5 km of a pre-expansion station by...
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Cheating in the Lab Predicts Fraud in the Field : An Experiment in Public Transportations
Dai, Zhixin - 2016
We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study attitudes towards dishonesty. We find that the diversity of behavior in terms of dis/honesty in laboratory tasks and in the field correlate. Moreover, individuals who have just...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999034
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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
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Financial Liberalization and Democracy : The Role of Reform Reversals
Campos, Nauro F. - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157255
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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