Product Market Deregulation and Employment Outcomes: Evidence from the German Retail Sector

Konferenzbeitrag

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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2014: Evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik - Session: Local Labour Markets ; No. A13-V2

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Economics of Regulation ; Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Senftleben-König, Charlotte
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (where): Kiel und Hamburg
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/100539
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET