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How regulations impact the labor market : a review of the literatures on product and labor market regulations

Alzate, David; Carranza, Eliana; Duran-Franch, Joana; … - 2024

This paper provides an extensive review of the literatures on product and labor market regulations and their effects on labor market outcomes. It uncovers the interdependence of these two types of regulations, an area that has received limited attention in research. The paper highlights why...

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Analyzing the extent and influence of occupational licensing on the labor market

Kleiner, Morris M.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2011

This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...

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Exposure to regulation and income inequality in local labor markets : evidence from the U.S. over the past half-century

Stoyanov, Andrey; Zubanov, Nick - 2025

study fills this gap by measuring local exposure to regulation from the industry-relevant articles of U.S. Code of Federal … Regulation linked to local industry employment structure in 741 commuting zones (CZs) in the U.S. over the period 1970 …-2019. Relating our exposure to regulation measure to the CZ-level income inequality, computed from the Census records, we find that …

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The welfare effects of globalization with labor market regulation

Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2015

contributions to the latter's decisions. Both a shift from national to international regulation and a decrease in trade costs …

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How do drug prices respond to a change from external to internal reference pricing? : evidence from a Danish regulatory reform

Kaiser, Ulrich; Méndez, Susan J. - 2015

We study the effects of a change in the way patient reimbursements are calculated on the prices of pharmaceuticals using quasi-experimental data for Denmark which switched from external (where reimbursements are based on prices of similar products in foreign countries) to internal reference...

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On the boundaries of the shadow economy : an empirical investigation

Manes, Eran; Schneider, Friedrich; Tchetchik, Anat - 2016

support to this view. We find that in countries with less stringent job market regulation the long-run impact of Unemployment … faster in countries with looser job-market regulation, compared with countries with stricter regulation. These findings have …

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Privatisation in developing countries : what are the lessons of recent experience?

Estrin, Saul; Pelletier, Adeline - 2016

This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...

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The impact of regulation on innovation

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable ….4% lower due to the regulation, a 2.2% consumption equivalent welfare loss. Four-fifths of this loss is due to lower innovation … changes in the direction of R&D, and find that regulation's negative effects only matter for incremental innovation (as …

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Slippery fish : enforcing regulation under subversive adaptation

Gonzalez Lira, Andres; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2019

Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement …

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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries

Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018

This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...

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