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Sunday shop opening is deregulated to the municipal level in the Netherlands. Despite positive effects on economic growth and employment, many municipalities restrict Sunday shop opening. Based on 2003 data we show that diverse local characteristics, like the size of municipalities and religious...
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This paper investigates the short- and medium-term effects of the deregulation of shopopening hours legislation on … a gradual deregulation of shop opening restrictions in most of Germany's sixteen federal states. The paper exploits … regional variation in the legislation in order to identify the effect product market deregulation has on retail employment. We …
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This paper investigates the effects of the deregulation of shop-opening hours legislation on retail employment in … deregulation of shop opening restrictions in most of Germany s sixteen federal states. The paper exploits regional variation in the … legislation in order to identify the effect of product market deregulation on retail employment. We find robust evidence that the …
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This paper examines retail grocery price levels with a very large (unbalanced) panel of stores that operate in well-defined local markets. We explain price variation across grocery retailers by the concentration of wholesalers and retailers, and the market share of hypermarkets (and control for...
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attributed to product market deregulation, in particular liberalization of shop-closing laws effected in the mid-1990s. I sketch …
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Dieses Paper berichtet über laufende Forschung zu den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Produktmarktregulierungen und dem Arbeitsmarkt. Insbesondere wird auf die Beschäftigungseffekte von Ladenschlußgesetzen und ähnlichen Beschränkungen eingegangen. Die Beschäftigungsentwicklung im Einzelhandel...
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attributed to product market deregulation, in particular liberalization of ship-closing laws effected in the mid-1990s. I sketch …
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The purpose of this paper is to analyse regulatory developments in the road freight and retail distribution industries of OECD Member countries. For each industry, the analysis is divided into four parts. First, structural developments in the industry are outlined. Second, the main features of...
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