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Occupational licensing and job mobility in the United States

Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2019

empirical analysis exploits variation in licensing regulation across states and industries and constructs indicators for both … the share of employment subject to licensing (the extensive margin) and the strictness of regulation (the intensive margin … with more extensive and stricter licensing regulation. The results from the analysis of earnings are generally mixed and …

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The Cost of Regulatory Compliance in the United States

Trebbi, Francesco; Zhang, Miao Ben - 2023

We quantify firms' regulatory compliance costs from 2002 to 2014 in terms of their labor spending to adhere to government rules. Detailed establishment-level occupation data, in combination with occupation-specific task information, allow us to recover the share of an establishment's wage bill...

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Barriers to Entry, Entrepreneurship, and Income Inequality within the United States

O'Reilly, Colin - 2022

Regulations can create economic rents for incumbents at the expense of new entrants, thereby limiting entrepreneurship and exacerbating income inequality. Cross-country studies have shown that higher costs to starting a business tends to slow new firm formation (Chambers and Muenmo 2019) and...

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Franchise termination laws, craft brewery entry and growth

Burgdorf, Jacob - 2021

This paper estimates how beer franchise laws and their interaction with restrictions on vertical integration between manufacturing and wholesaling impacted US craft brewers' entry and production decisions. The effects are identified by exploiting variation in policies across states and time...

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Anti-competitive and regulatory barriers in the United States labour market

Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2020

Occupational licensing and non-competition agreements are two important types of labour market regulation in the United … States, both covering around one fifth of all workers. While some regulation is needed to protect safety and ensure quality … these barriers. The States are mainly responsible for labour market regulation and the variation across States is similar to …

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One Size Fits All? The Differential Impact of Federal Regulation on Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity Across US States

Dove, John A. - 2023

Numerous studies evaluate how a jurisdiction’s institutional and specifically regulatory environment impact firm formation and entrepreneurial activity. This study adds to this by employing a dataset measuring the differential impact that federal regulations have on industries across US...

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