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On the Political Economy of Complexity
Nitzan, Shmuel; Procaccia, Uriel; Tzur, Joseph - 2013
Article underscores the dark side of both phenomena by focusing on the anti-competitive features of regulation and reform and …
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Barriers to Entry and Profitability
Heger, Diana; Kraft, Kornelius - 2008
Barriers to entry are regarded as major impediments to the working of markets. Entry must not necessarily actually take place - the perceived threat of entry may encourage incumbent firms to behave as if they are in a competitive market, even if they are not. We present empirical evidence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298648
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Product market deregulation and labor market outcomes
Ebell, Monique; Haefke, Christian - 2003
scrutiny. This paper considers the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment … regimes: a high-regulation European regime and a low-regulation Anglo-American one. Our analysis suggests that no more than … half a percentage point of European unemployment rates can be attributed to the regulation of entry. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261653
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274496
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Product Market Deregulation and Labor Market Outcomes
Ebell, Monique; Haefke, Christian - 2002
We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main … high-regulation European regime to a low-regulation Anglo-American one. Our quantitative analysis suggests that under … individual bargaining, no more than half a percentage point of European unemployment rates can be attributed to entry regulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430036
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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US
Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Roy - 2008
The process of the entrepreneurial decision is decomposed in seven engagement levels ranging from "never thought about starting a business" to "gave up", "thinking about it", "taking steps for starting up", "having a young business", "having an older business" and "no longer being an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279550
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Social Networks and Labor Market Inequality between Ethnicities and Races
Toomet, Ott; van der Leij, Marco; Rolfe, Meredith - 2012
This paper analyzes the relationship between unexplained racial/ethnic wage differentials on the one hand and social network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily, on the other hand. Our analysis is based on both U.S. and Estonian surveys, supplemented with Estonian telephone...
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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique to logit and probit models
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2006
The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267328
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Last hired, first fired? Black-white unemployment and the business cycle
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2008
Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...
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Gender and racial wage gaps in Brazil 1996-2006: Evidence using a matching comparisons approach
Marques Garcia, Luana; Ñopo, Hugo; Salardi, Paola - 2009
This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found along the gender divide, although both noticeably...
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