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Entry Barriers and the Labor Market Outcomes of Incumbent Workers
Philipp Lergetporer
Jens Ruhose
Lisa Simon
其他書名
Evidence from a Deregulation Reform in the German Crafts Sector
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SSRN
, 2018
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6ZGrzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become self-employed in some occupations. Using longitudinal social security data, we implement a matched difference-in-differences design with entropy balancing to account for observable characteristics and unobserved individual heterogeneity. The reform tripled the number of businesses within ten years and led to slower earnings growth and higher unemployment for incumbent workers in deregulated occupations. However, the reform effect seems rather small, which we attribute to the relatively low competitiveness of new businesses. Supporting this view, the reform did not lead to overall employment growth.
