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 …

We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …

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 …

regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a …

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

the first evaluation of the impact of global terror on human welfare. We combine panel datasets for Australia, Germany …, Russia, Switzerland, the UK and the US. Individual well-being information for 750,000 individual x year observations …

net costs of training apprentices are substantial in Germany, whereas apprenticeship training is on average profitable … during the training period for firms in Switzerland, even though the two training systems are rather similar. This paper … between the two countries can be explained by a higher share of productive tasks allocated to apprentices in Switzerland and …

team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments – which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …