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We estimate the employment effects of product market reforms aimed at increasing competitive pressures and easing government controls in a sample of OECD countries over the past two decades. We control for several labour market policies and institutions that are thought to influence equilibrium...
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In the European Union, energy markets are increasingly being liberalized. A case in point is the European natural gas industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher welfare. This paper indicates that this might not happen...
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In the European Union, energy markets are increasingly being liberalized. A case in point is the European natural gas industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher welfare. This paper indicates that this might not happen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316347
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unemployment rate which is almost three times larger than that in a model with ¯xed labor force. For a calibration capturing … alternatively European and the U.S. labor markets, a deregulation episode, which lowers the markup by 3 percent- age points, results … in a fall in the unemployment rate by 0.17 and 0.07 percentage point, respectively, while the labor share is almost una …
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decline in the unemployment rate which is almost three times larger than that in a model with fixed labor force. For a … calibration capturing alternatively European and the U.S. labor markets, a deregulation episode, which lowers the markup by 3 … percent- age points, results in a fall in the unemployment rate by 0.17 and 0.07 percentage point, respectively, while the …
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decline in the unemployment rate which is almost three times larger than that in a model with fixed labor force. For a … calibration capturing alternatively the European and the US labor markets, a deregulation episode, which lowers the markup by 3 … percentage points, results in a fall in the unemployment rate by 0.17 and 0.05 percentage point, respectively, while the labor …
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decline in the unemployment rate can be attributed to the increase in the labor force, while the number of job seekers remains … fairly unchanged. For a calibration capturing alternatively European and the U.S. labor markets, a deregulation episode …, which lowers the markup by 3 percentage points, results in a fall in the unemployment rate by 0.1 and 0.05 percentage point …
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that changes in production prices and wages at country*industry levels are informative about the creation of rents impeding …
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