This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a … microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers …

We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security …

employment and productivity.The major findings are that:1)Affirmative action has some success in improving employment … employment under affirmative action have taken place in both high-skilled and low-skilled occupations. 3)Compliance reviews have … not been targeted against establishments with the lowest relative proportions of minority or female employment. Targetting …

-08, this study provides plant-level cross-state/time-series evidence of the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL …) on total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity in India. Identification of the effect of EPL follows from a …

-demand elasticities in the Indian manufacturing sector. These elasticities turn out to be negatively related to protection levels that … after the reforms, volatility in productivity and output gets translated into larger wage and employment volatility …

, known as the "license raj," on registered manufacturing output, employment, entry and investment across Indian states with …

Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to …. Using disaggregated employment data in a new sample of nearly 10,000 establishments,this study finds that Affirmative Action … was generally successful during the late 1910's in increasing minority employment in skilled white-collar occupations as …