Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/100539 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2014: Evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik - Session: Local Labour Markets No. A13-V2
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel und Hamburg
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the effects of the deregulation of shop-opening hours legislation on retail employment in Germany. In 2006, the legislative competence was shifted from the federal to the state level, leading to a gradual deregulation of shop opening restrictions in most of Germany s sixteen federal states. The paper exploits regional variation in the legislation in order to identify the effect of product market deregulation on retail employment. We find robust evidence that the deregulation had negative effects on retail employment, with considerable heterogeneity in terms of the type of employment as well as establishment size. Employment losses are most pronounced for small retail stores and are almost exclusively borne by full-time employees.
JEL: 
J21
L51
L81
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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