The athletes who participate in professional football call themselves (and the public calls them) football “players,” not football “workers,” reflecting the reality that as exhausting and high-pressure as their efforts are, they are ultimately playing a sport. Nevertheless, we should not...

Acknowledging the vulnerability of occupational health and safety, the ILO’s members have decided to elevate the status of the ILO’s OSH instruments, including by amending the ILO’s 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (“FPRW Declaration). Simultaneously, those...

Legal rules governing the employer-employee relationship are many and varied. Economic analysis has illuminated both the efficiency and the effects on employee welfare of such rules, as described in this paper. Topics addressed include workplace safety mandates, compensation systems for...

This paper analyzes how changes in the enforcement of labor regulations impact on the compliance rate in a context where the labor rules and the characteristics of the labor inspection system differ by firm size. In addition to the channels analyzed in the existing literature - the deterrence...