The authors analyze lawsuits involving publicly-appointed lawyers in a labor court in Mexico to study how a rigid law is enforced. They show that, even after a judge has awarded something to a worker alleging unjust dismissal, the award goes uncollected 56 percent of the time. Workers who are...

Using a newly assembled data set on procedures filed in Mexican labor tribunals, the authors of this paper study the determinants of final awards to workers. On average, workers recover less than 30 percent of their claim. The strongest result is that workers receive higher percentages of their...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Piyabha Kongsamut, Sergio Rebelo and Danyang Xie (2001), 'Beyond Balanced Growth', Review of Economic Studies, 68 (4), October, 869-82 -- 2. Reto Foellmi and Josef Zweimüller (2008), 'Structural Change, Engle's Consumption Cycles and Kaldor's Facts...

We study the importance of international trade in structural change. Our framework has both productivity and trade cost shocks, and allows for non-unitary income and substitution elasticities. We calibrate our model to investigate South Korea's structural change between 1971 and 2005. We find...