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Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity : Evidence from Micro Data
Haskel, Jonathan - 2012
We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and …
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The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation : Evidence from European Countries
Piton, Céline - 2018
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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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps : An International Study
Zweimüller, Martina; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2021
product and labor markets and the general absence of regulation in the economy. The first approach employs meta-analysis data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316922
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Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production : Evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders reallocate labor across activities less in response to...
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Endogenous Indoctrination : Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...
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Roots of Inequality
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc; Crisóstomo Wainstock, Daniel - 2023
Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning differentials reflect variations in productive traits among individuals, a significant component of the differences in inequality across societies can be attributed to variation in...
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Estimating the Size of External Effects of Energy Subsidies
Commander, Simon John - 2015
It is widely accepted that the costs of under-pricing energy are large, whether in advanced or developing countries. This paper explores how large these costs can be by focussing on the size of the external effects that energy subsidies in particular generate in two important sectors –...
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Spillover Effects of Energy Transition Metals in Chile
Agnese, Pablo; Rios, Francisco - 2023
This paper examines the impact of spillover effects of energy transition metals on the Chilean economy. With the increasing demand for metals like copper and lithium due to the growth in renewable energies and electromobility, metal abundant countries like Chile must ready themselves to remain...
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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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Does Anti-Competitive Regulation Matter for Productivity? Evidence from European Firms
Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2011
. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of sectoral regulation on within-sector performance and the indirect … effects of sectoral regulation on firms in other sectors through intersectoral input-output linkages. Our econometric … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both …
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