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Does Anti-Competitive Regulation Matter for Productivity? Evidence from European Firms

Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2011

. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of sectoral regulation on within-sector performance and the indirect … effects of sectoral regulation on firms in other sectors through intersectoral input-output linkages. Our econometric … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both …

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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity : The Role of Allocation and Selection

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2009

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...

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Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies

Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2014

, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform …

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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps : An International Study

Zweimüller, Martina; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2021

in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in … product and labor markets and the general absence of regulation in the economy. The first approach employs meta-analysis data …

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Agency and Communication in IMF Conditional Lending : Theory and Empirical Evidence

Marchesi, Silvia - 2014

We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...

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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies : The Role of Job Search Assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2010

This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...

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Misperceiving Inequality

Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2015

Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization and promote class conflict and revolution in...

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Policies in Hard Times : Assessing the Impact of Financial Crises on Structural Reforms

Gokmen, Gunes - 2020

particular, we look at measures of reforms in international trade, agriculture, network industries, and financial markets. We …

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Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages : Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data

Bockerman, Petri - 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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Still Waiting for Mister Right? Asymmetric Information, Abortion Laws and the Timing of Marriage

Bowmaker, Simon W. - 2009

Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young women as 'shotgun weddings' are no longer necessary. Empirical evidence from the United States lends support to that hypothesis. This paper presents an alternative theory of...

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