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Sectoral Structure and Entry Regulations
Messina, Julián - 2003
The sectoral allocation of labor differs considerably across developed economies, even in the presence of similar patterns of structural change. A general equilibrium model that captures the stylized facts of structural change is presented. In this framework, economy-wide barriers to entry...
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Reforms, entry and productivity: some evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis; … - 2006
It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable. Traditional research in the context of entry has explored...
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Employment protection, product market regulation and firm selection
Koeniger, Winfried; Prat, Julien - 2006
This paper analyzes the effect of labor and product market regulation in a dynamic stochastic equilibrium with search …-and-firing (intensive) margin. We characterize analytically how both margins depend on regulation before we calibrate the model to the US … through firm selection. Finally, the opposite effect of product and labor market regulation on job turnover rationalizes the …
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Regulatory barriers and entry in developing economies
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - 2006
We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to 'excessive' entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a licence...
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Product market regulation, firm selection and unemployment
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Prat, Julien - 2007
This paper analyzes the effect of Product Market Regulation (PMR) on unemployment in a search model with heterogeneous …
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Effects of employment protection and product market regulations on the Italian labor market
Kugler, Adriana D.; Pica, Giovanni - 2003
Labor market regulations have often been blamed for high and persistent unemployment in Europe, but evidence on their impact remains mixed. More recently, attention has turned to the impact of product market regulations on employment growth. This paper analyzes how labor and product market...
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Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry
Bertrand, Marianne; Kramarz, Francis - 2002
Are product market and entry regulation key sources of low employment growth in many European countries? We investigate …
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Product market regulation and macroeconomic performance: a review of cross country evidence
Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2005
country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a … of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …
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Conceptualising informality: regulation and enforcement
Kanbur, Ravi - 2009
specified regulation(s). Relative to the regulation(s), four conceptual categories that can help frame the analysis are: (A …) regulation applicable and compliant, (B) regulation applicable and non-compliant, (C) regulation non-applicable after adjustment … of activity, and (D) regulation non-applicable to the activity. Rather than use the generic labels 'informal' and 'formal …
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Regulation and UK retailing productivity: evidence from micro data
Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009
We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and …
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