We provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to formal sector in dual labor markets. We use a framework … with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated enforcement strategies. Firms … of hiring workers in the informal labor market. Thus enforcement of labor laws and other regulations should not have …

exploit a large firm level dataset across 63 countries and within country variation in the enforcement of the labor codes in … countries with very different de jure firing regulations. Our findings strongly suggest that firms facing a stricter enforcement …

. We explore the fact that plants face varying degrees of exposure to global markets and to the enforcement of labor market … administrative data on employers matched to their employees and on the enforcement of labor regulations at the city level over Brazil … regulations, that after a trade shock, plants facing stricter enforcement of the labor law decrease job creation and increase job …

, through increasing enforcement of existing regulations. We conducted a field experiment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in order to … enforcement visit from a municipal inspector; while the fourth group was assigned to have a neighboring firm receive an … enforcement visit to see if enforcement has spillovers. We find zero or negative impacts of information and free cost treatments …

intensity of enforcement. While lack of enforcement is well-documented, an understanding of its determinants − why and to what … extent a government would not enforce a regulation that it has itself passed, and why non-enforcement varies from one context … to another, is relatively neglected in the literature. Thus, specificity on regulation and on enforcement is the key to …

This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the market for migrant smugglers. Using … a unique dataset that links border crossing histories from illegal Mexican migrants to aggregate enforcement and … punishment statistics, we find that the effect of enforcement on smuggling prices is small. Though enforcement has more than …

Since formal laws can be observed or ignored to varying degrees, the actual enforcement regime shapes incentives and … economies. But if compliance and enforcement varies widely across regions/cities or segments of firms, then this variation is … cross-regional and inter-temporal variation in EPL enforcement and to explore empirically whether it is translated into …

This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations on unemployment and inequality …, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricter enforcement (affecting the payment of mandated benefits to formal … wage premium. Our results are consistent with a model where stricter enforcement causes a contraction in labor demand in …