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Responding to Regulation : The Effects of Changes in Mandatory Retirement Laws on Firm-Provided Incentives
Frederiksen, Anders - 2019
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1978 expanded employee age protections to age 70, making the widespread practice by U.S. firms of mandating retirement at age 65 illegal. Building on the work of Lazear (1979), we propose that the law change not only weakened the long-term employment...
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Great Expectations : Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2011
This chapter reviews the literature on employment and labor law. The goal of the review is to understand why every jurisdiction in the world has extensive employment law, particularly employment protection law, while most economic analysis of the law suggests that less employment protection...
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Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance
Kar, Saibal - 2011
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 which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do...
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Enforcement of Labor Regulation and Informality
Almeida, Rita - 2011
Enforcement of labor regulations in the formal sector may drive workers to informality because they increase the costs of formal labor. But better compliance with mandated benefits makes it attractive to be a formal employee. We show that, in locations with frequent inspections workers pay for...
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Trade and Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Enforcement of Labor Regulations
Almeida, Rita - 2013
This paper revisits the question of how trade openness affects labor market outcomes in a developing country setting. We explore the fact that plants face varying degrees of exposure to global markets and to the enforcement of labor market regulations, and rely on Brazil's currency crisis in...
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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution : Evidence from France
Garicano, Luis - 2013
We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our …. With flexible wages, the deadweight loss of the regulation is below 1% of GDP, but when wages are downwardly rigid welfare … losses exceed 5%. We also show, regardless of wage flexibility, that the main losers from the regulation are workers (and to …
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Lift the Ban? Initial Employment Restrictions and Refugee Labour Market Outcomes
Fasani, Francesco - 2020
This article investigates the medium to long-term effects on refugee labour market outcomes of the temporary employment bans being imposed in many countries on recently arrived asylum seekers. Using a newly collected dataset covering almost 30 years of employment restrictions together with...
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Enforcement of Labor Regulation and the Labor Market Effects of Trade : Evidence from Brazil
Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2018
How does enforcement of labor regulations shape the labor market effects of trade? To tackle this question, we exploit the Brazilian trade liberalization episode and exogenous variation in the intensity of both the trade shock and enforcement across local labor markets. Regions with stricter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911178
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Wages and Hours Laws : What Do We Know? What Can Be Done?
Brown, Charles - 2019
We summarize recent research on the wage and employment effects of minimum wage laws in the U.S. and infer from non-U.S. studies of hours laws the likely effects of unchanging U.S. hours laws. Minimum wages in the U.S. have increasingly become a province of state governments, with the effective...
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Population Aging, Age Discrimination, and Age Discrimination Protections at the 50th Anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Button, Patrick - 2019
This paper discusses population aging, increased participation of seniors in the labor force in the United States (and reasons for this), and how these trends are making the struggles of older workers in the labor market increasingly relevant. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a...
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