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 …

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 …

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 … specified regulation(s). Relative to the regulation(s), four conceptual categories that can help frame the analysis are: (A …

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 …

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 …

Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement …-term effects of enforcement. A simpler demand-side information campaign generates two-thirds of the gains compared to the most …

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 … specified regulation(s). Relative to the regulation(s), four conceptual categories that can help frame the analysis are: (A …