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 …

. 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 …

Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low …

France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be … observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has … short-term oriented policies can only have temporary effects. Ultimately, the youth unemployment disease in France and in …

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and …

care facilities. The regulation may reduce children's consumption of sugary beverages in the short run and weaken their … regulation by providing sugary drinks at home. Using detailed scanner data of grocery purchases, we find that affected California … households increased their juice purchases right after the regulation became effective. However, this increase disappears after …