We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security … generous social security systems. Socialist and French legal origin countries have sharply higher levels of labor regulation …. Heavier regulation of labor is associated with a larger unofficial economy, lower labor force participation, and higher …

Implementation of workplace policies--whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs--raises the … somehow help solve the public goods problem inherent in workplace regulation. Second, the agent must be able to reduce the …

detailed enforcement steps and sanctions of the contract compliance process seem to have little effect individually …

The paper examines changes in labor regulation between 1898 and 1940 in the context of issues related to rule of law in … labor regulation was stymied by the doctrine of “freedom of contract.” Seeing close votes and substantial turnover of judges …

summary measures of labor regulation that document the changes in labor regulation across states and over time during the … affected and builds up the overall index from 17 categories of regulation; the number of pages of laws; appropriations for … changes in labor regulation during the progressive era. We then provide preliminary evidence on the extent to which the labor …