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How does entry regulation influence entry into self-employment and occupational mobility?

Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2009

We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and … Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self … changes after unforeseen economic shocks. -- Entry regulation ; self-employment ; occupational mobility …

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Young, single, but not free : the EU market for financial services

Booth, P. - In: Breaking up is hard to do ... : Britain and Europe's …, (pp. 253-273). 2016

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How policy changes affect shareholder wealth : the case of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster

Betzer, André; Doumet, Markus; Rinne, Ulf - 2011

This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit …

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The effect of statutory sick pay regulations on workers' health

Halla, Martin; Pech, Susanne; Zweimüller, Martina - 2015

Social insurance programs typically comprise sick leave insurance. An important policy parameter is how the cost of sick leave are shared between workers, firms, and the social security system. We show that this sharing rule affects not only absence behavior, but also workers' subsequent health....

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Regulation and UK retailing productivity : evidence from micro data

Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. -- Productivity ; retail ; regulation …

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Rent building, rent sharing : a panel country-industry empirical analysis

Askenazy, Philippe; Cette, Gilbert; Maarek, Paul - 2012

, decrease with anti-competitive regulation in upstream sectors and increase with the industry specific output gap; ii) decrease … with the national output gap, increase with the national employment rate and decrease with employment protection regulation …

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Trust the police? : self-selection of motivated agents into the German police force

Friebel, Guido; Kosfeld, Michael; Thielmann, Gerd - 2016

We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents self-select into public service. Our focus is on trustworthiness and the willingness to enforce norms as key dimensions of intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find...

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Management and performance in the public sector : evidence from German municipalities

Englmaier, Florian; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; … - 2022

We study management practices and performance of public sector organizations in Germany. For a representative sample of municipalities, we provide survey evidence for substantial heterogeneity in the use of structured management practices. This heterogeneity is not driven by differences across...

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Seniority rules, worker mobility and wages : evidence from multi-country linked employer-employee data

Böckerman, Petri; Skedinger, Per; Uusitalo, Roope - 2016

We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that operate in two countries that have different seniority rules. The results show that...

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The impact of employment protection on the industrial wage structure

Heywood, John S.; O'Mahony, Mary; Siebert, William S.; … - 2018

This paper tests whether the job security offered by stricter employment protection legislation (EPL) undermines positive compensating wage differentials that would otherwise be paid. Specifically, we ask whether industries with relatively more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower...

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