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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies
Charlot, Olivier - 2011
formal sector wage premium. The opposite is true for labor market regulation. Finally, we show that the so-called overhiring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129903
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Truth-Telling : A Representative Assessment
Abeler, Johannes - 2012
A central assumption of the canonical cheap talk literature is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Recent evidence from laboratory experiments with student subjects suggests, however, that while many people do report the payoff-maximizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099099
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Product Market Regulation and Endogenous Union Formation
Haefke, Christian - 2006
We contribute to the growing literature which aims to link product market regulation and competition to labor market … moving from the US low regulation-individual bargaining economy to the EU high regulation-collective bargaining economy leads …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779655
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Regulatory Barriers and Entry in Developing Economies
Bennett, John - 2006
We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to quot;excessivequot; entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779967
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The Optimal Minimum Wage with Regulatory Uncertainty
Bennett, John - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009495
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The Political Economy of Labor Market Regulation with R&D
Palokangas, Tapio - 2014
In this paper, I study the political rationale for labor market regulation. Oligopolists employ raw labor and human … less competition from outside. Then, the fall of income due to wage increases is reduced and labor market regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054585
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Firing Regulations and Firm Size in the Developing World : Evidence from Differential Enforcement
Almeida, Rita - 2015
This paper examines how stringent de facto firing regulations affect firm size throughout the developing world. We exploit a large firm level dataset across 63 countries and within country variation in the enforcement of the labor codes in countries with very different de jure firing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037589
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Employment Protection, Product Market Regulation and Firm Selection
Koeniger, Winfried; Prat, Julien - 2021
This paper analyzes the effect of labor and product market regulation in a dynamic stochastic equilibrium with search …-and-firing (intensive) margin. We characterize analytically how both margins depend on regulation before we calibrate the model to the US … through firm selection. Finally, the opposite effect of product and labor market regulation on job turnover rationalizes the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317674
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Labor Market Regulation, International Trade and Footloose Capital
Palokangas, Tapio - 2017
regulation to an international agent eliminates that distortion, increasing wages and aggregate welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965021
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Minimum Quality Regulations and the Demand for Child Care Labor
Ali, Umair; Herbst, Chris M.; Makridis, Christos - 2022
Minimum quality regulations are often justified in the child care market because of the presence of information frictions between parents and providers. However, regulations can also have unintended consequences for the quantity and quality of services provided. In this paper, we merge new data...
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