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 …

bargaining coverage raises wages and employment for covered employees; (3) a more favorable legal environment increases wages for … permitted clauses - on wages and employment …

Using Canadian data on large, private-sector contract negotiations from January 1967 to March 1993, we find that wages … workers during strikes is associated with significantly higher wages, and more frequent and longer strikes. This is consistent …

somehow help solve the public goods problem inherent in workplace regulation. Second, the agent must be able to reduce the …

and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both … find that both labor demand and equilibrium wages become more rainfall sensitive when cultivators are offered rainfall … contract offered to agricultural laborers smoothes wages across rainfall states by inducing changes in labor supply. Policy …

This paper assesses the evidence regarding the effects of multinational production on wages and working conditions in … exploit workers by paying low wages and subjecting them to substandard conditions. We first address efforts of activist groups …-country wages. Available theories yield ambiguous predictions, leaving the effects to be examined empirically. We therefore, finally …

find work, and prefer to do so even at wages below the prevailing wage rather than remain unemployed. However, they rarely … correlate with downward wage rigidity and business cycle volatility across India.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working …