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Djankov, Simeon - 2003

We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security … generous social security systems. Socialist and French legal origin countries have sharply higher levels of labor regulation …. Heavier regulation of labor is associated with a larger unofficial economy, lower labor force participation, and higher …

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of National Labor Relations Act Remedies : Analysis and Comparison with Other Workplace Penalty Policies

Kleiner, Morris M. - 2010

The goal of this paper is to examine the implied penalty policies underlying the remedies created by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in terms of the policies' impact on employer and union behaviors. We present a simple model of deterrence as a means of evaluating workplace penalty...

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The Effectiveness of Equal Employment Law and Affirmative Action Regulation

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1985

This paper reviews some recent empirical analyses of the impact of affirmative action and anti-discrimination law on employment and productivity.The major findings are that:1)Affirmative action has some success in improving employment opportunities for minorities and females, particularly for...

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The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable ….4% lower due to the regulation, a 2.2% consumption equivalent welfare loss. Four-fifths of this loss is due to lower innovation … changes in the direction of R&D, and find that regulation's negative effects only matter for incremental innovation (as …

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Individual Rights and Collective Agents : The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets

Weil, David - 2003

somehow help solve the public goods problem inherent in workplace regulation. Second, the agent must be able to reduce the …

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Business environment and firm entry : evidence from international data

Klapper, Leora - 2004

"Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, we study how the business environment in a country drives the creation of new firms. Our focus is on regulations governing entry. We find entry regulations hamper entry, especially in industries that naturally should have...

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The Local Residential Land Use Regulatory Environment Across U.S. Housing Markets : Evidence from a New Wharton Index

Gyourko, Joseph - 2019

regulated to reverse course and deregulate to any significant extent. Moreover, regulation in most large coastal markets …

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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Opioid Abuse, and Crime

Dave, Dhaval - 2018

We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how policies that restrict access to Rx opioids per se within the healthcare system would impact broader non-health domains. In response to the substantial increase in opioid use...

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Three Myths about Federal Regulation

McLaughlin, Patrick A. - 2020

Despite evidence to the contrary, three common myths persist about federal regulations. The first myth is that many regulations concern the environment, but in fact only a small minority of regulations are environmental. The second myth is that most regulations contain quantitative estimates of...

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Business Environment and Firm Entry : Evidence from International Data

Klapper, Leora - 2004

Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, we study how the business environment in a country drives the creation of new firms. Our focus is on regulations governing entry. We find entry regulations hamper entry, especially in industries that naturally should have...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468313

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