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The Short- and Longer-Term Effects of a Child Labor Ban

Piza, Caio; Emerson, Patrick M.; Souza, André Portela; … - 2022

Are bans effective at lowering child labor and increasing school attendance and, if so, do these effects lead to positive outcomes later in life? This paper seeks to answer these questions by examining the effect of a 1998 Brazilian law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16. To...

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Great Expectations : Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance

MacLeod, William Bentley - 2011

jurisdiction in the world has extensive employment law, particularly employment protection law, while most economic analysis of the …

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Severance Pay Programs Around the World : History, Rationale, Status, and Reforms

Holzmann, Robert - 2011

The paper examines severance pay programs around the world by providing the first ever overview of existing programs …

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The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries Since 1960

Campos, Nauro - 2012

This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system as being a major determinant of the cross-country variation in the rigidity of employment...

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Does Institutional Quality Affect Firm Performance? Insights from a Semiparametric Approach

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar - 2012

Using a novel modeling approach, and cross-country firm level data for the textiles industry, we examine the impact of institutional quality on firm performance. Our methodology allows us to estimate the marginal impact of institutional quality on productivity of each firm. Our results bring...

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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?

Dreher, Axel - 2010

World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

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On the Inverse Relationship betweenUnemployment and Absenteeism: Evidence fromNatural Experiments and Worker Heterogeneity

Fahr, René; Frick, Bernd - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has beendocumented in a number of studies using either quarterly or annual data from differentcountries with varying institutional frameworks, it is not yet clear whether this empiricalregularity is due to changes in the...

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Inequality and Employment in a Dual Economy:Enforcement of Labor Regulation in Brazil

Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations onunemployment and inequality, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricterenforcement (affecting the payment of mandated benefits to formal workers) leads to: higherunemployment, less income...

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A Theory of Employment Guarantees:Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Both raw intuition and past experience suggest that the success of an employment guaranteescheme (EGS) in safeguarding the welfare of the poor depends both on the wage itpromises, and the ease with which any worker can gain access. An EGS is thus at once awage guarantee and a rationing device....

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Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages : Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data

Bockerman, Petri - 2016

We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that operate in two countries that have different seniority rules. The results show that...

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