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Labour Market Regulation in the Eu-15 : Causes and Consequences - a Survey
Siebert, Stanley - 2006
efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …
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Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States : Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals' Costs (Even Lowering One's Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition
Addison, John T. - 2006
This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779168
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Enforcement of Labor Regulation and the Labor Market Effects of Trade : Evidence from Brazil
Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2018
How does enforcement of labor regulations shape the labor market effects of trade? To tackle this question, we exploit the Brazilian trade liberalization episode and exogenous variation in the intensity of both the trade shock and enforcement across local labor markets. Regions with stricter...
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The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries Since 1960
Campos, Nauro F. - 2012
of regulation and is almost exclusively based on international cross-section data for the post-1995 period. This paper …
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Inequality and Employment in a Dual Economy : Enforcement of Labor Regulation in Brazil
Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2021
, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricter enforcement (affecting the payment of mandated benefits to formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316786
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Organization and Information in the Fight Against Crime : An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2010
Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP program. The IGESP is based on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136711
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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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Work Permit Regulations and Migrants' Labor Market Outcomes
Qendrai, Pamela - 2022
This paper studies how the introduction of a novel residence permit for working purposes the so-called Blue Card introduced in August 2012 has affected entry-level wages of non-EU migrants in Germany. The Blue Card was targeted at non-EU university graduates with degrees received or recognized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083759
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Inequality and Employment in a Dual Economy:Enforcement of Labor Regulation in Brazil
Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricterenforcement (affecting the payment of mandated benefits to formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861636
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Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market
Kleiner, Morris M. - 2011
This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...
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