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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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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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Entrepreneurship, self-employment and business data: an introduction to several large, nationally-representative datasets

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2009

Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More information including estimates of recent...

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Sectoral Structure and Entry Regulations

Messina, Julián - 2003

The sectoral allocation of labor differs considerably across developed economies, even in the presence of similar patterns of structural change. A general equilibrium model that captures the stylized facts of structural change is presented. In this framework, economy-wide barriers to entry...

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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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Discrimination and the effects of drug testing on black employment

Wozniak, Abigail - 2012

drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the …

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Using behavioral economic experiments at a large motor carrier: the context and design of the truckers and turnover project

Burks, Stephen V. - 2007

The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...

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Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data: An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-Representative Datasets

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Happiness Inequality in the United States

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s. There have been large changes in the level of happiness...

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Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence

Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

To what extent are improvements in quality of life (material living levels, health, education, political and civil rights, happiness, and the like) associated with economic growth? International comparisons of quality of life (QoL) conditions almost always point to a strong positive association...

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