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 …

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 …

with only occasional relapses. Yet, FDI liberalisation remains an unfinished agenda in various parts of the world and …

This paper investigates patterns in product market regulation across 34 OECD and 21 non-OECD countries, using an … updated and revised version of the OECD’s indicators of product market regulation (PMR). The analysis shows that …