Runst, Petrik; Thomä, Jörg - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 104 (2024) 1, pp. 53-57
The obligation to obtain a master craftsman's certificate in order to set up a new business was suspended in 2004 for some trades in the German skilled crafts sector, but was reintroduced for some of them in 2020. This paper presents the first empirical results of this re-regulation and places...