in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in … product and labor markets and the general absence of regulation in the economy. The first approach employs meta-analysis data …

, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform …

rates. Using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) we employ the proposed indicators to shed new light on changes in cost …

This paper examines how stringent de facto firing regulations affect firm size throughout the developing world. We …

two integrated countries with two inputs: labor and potentially footloose capital. National competition for jobs by labor … market deregulation creates a distortion with suboptimal wages. The mobility of capital aggravates that distortion by … regulation to an international agent eliminates that distortion, increasing wages and aggregate welfare …

deregulation reduces profits per unit of output, and thereby reduces training. On the other hand, the number of firms increases … European Labour Force Survey to investigate empirically the relationship between product market regulation and training … results are unambiguous and show that an increase in product market deregulation generates a sizeable increase in training …

on cyclical conditions: the employment cost of deregulation is higher in economic downturns, negligible in good times …

This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and … review, and interjurisdictional competition as well as the implications of union decline. Our analysis should help dispel any …

effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state …