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Before it Gets Better : The Short-Term Employment Costs of Regulatory Reforms
Bassanini, Andrea - 2017
on cyclical conditions: the employment cost of deregulation is higher in economic downturns, negligible in good times …
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Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training
Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - 2021
deregulation reduces profits per unit of output, and thereby reduces training. On the other hand, the number of firms increases … results are unambiguous and show that an increase in product market deregulation generates a sizeable increase in training …
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Labor-Market Concentration and Labor Compensation
Qiu, Yue - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of labor-market concentration on labor compensation across the U.S. private sector since 2000. We distinguish between concentration in local labor markets versus local product markets, guarding against bias from confounded product-market concentration. Analysis...
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Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration
Marinescu, Ioana Elena - 2020
How does employer market power affect workers? We compute the concentration of new hires by occupation and commuting zone in France using linked employer-employee data. Using instrumental variables with worker and firm fixed effects, we find that a 10% increase in labor market concentration...
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Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...
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Do Environmental Regulations Effect FDI Decisions? The Pollution Haven Hypothesis Revisited
Yoon, Haeyeon - 2017
In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations on foreign direct investment (FDI). We use Korean outward FDI data covering the manufacturing sector for 2009-15. The study not only considers the stringency but also the...
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Safeguarding Consumers Through Minimum Quality Standards : Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality, 1880-1910
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; McKelligott, … - 2022
We examine the effect of enforcing minimum quality standards (MQSs) on consumer health. In the late 1800s, the urban milk supply was regularly skimmed and diluted with water, but consumers could not easily determine its quality because dyes, caramel, and salt were added. To protect consumers,...
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Employer Sanctions : A Policy with a Pitfall?
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2021
This chapter investigates the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of native laborers. In response to such sanctions, managers in a firm may be reassigned from the supervision of production to the verification of the legality of the firm's labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324574
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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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Employment Outcomes and the Interaction between Product and Labor Market Deregulation : Are They Substitutes or Complements?
Fiori, Giuseppe - 2007
countries over the period 1980-2002, we present evidence that product market deregulation is more effective at the margin when … labor market regulation is high. Moreover, there is evidence in our sample that product market deregulation promotes labor … market deregulation. We show that these results are mostly consistent with the basic predictions of a standard bargaining …
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