Similar Search Results

The Mortality Cost of Political Connections

Fisman, Raymond - 2015

We study the relationship between the political connections of Chinese firms and workplace fatalities. In our preferred specification we find that the worker death rate for connected companies is two to three times that of unconnected firms (depending on the sample employed), a pattern that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457401

Employment Law and the Labor Market

Jolls, Christine - 2007

Legal rules governing the employer-employee relationship are many and varied. Economic analysis has illuminated both the efficiency and the effects on employee welfare of such rules, as described in this paper. Topics addressed include workplace safety mandates, compensation systems for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465423

Outsourcing Policy and Worker Outcomes : Causal Evidence from a Mexican Ban

Estefan, Alejandro; Gerhard, Roberto; Kaboski, Joseph Paul - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

A weakening of labor protection policies is often invoked as one cause of observed monopsony power and the decline in labor's share of income, but little evidence exists on the causal impact of labor policies on wage markdowns. Using confidential Mexican economic census data from 1994 to 2019,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468224

How Does China's New Labor Contract Law Affect Floating Workers?

Freeman, Richard B. - 2013

China's new Labor Contract Law took effect on January 2008 and required firms to give migrant workers written contracts …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459407

Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations

Marinescu, Ioana; Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Wage inequality does not fully capture differences in job quality. Jobs also differ along other key dimensions, including the prevalence of labor rights violations. We construct novel measures of labor violation rates using data from federal agencies. Within local industries over time, a 10%...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482690

Employment Protection Legislation and Plant-Level Productivity in India

Dougherty, Sean - 2011

Using plant-level data from the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) for the fiscal years from 1998-99 through 2007-08, 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460964

Foreign Direct Investment, Global Value Chains, and Labor Rights : No Race-to-the-Bottom?

Im, Hye-jun; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In a stylized model of multinational firms choosing host locations for their global value chains, host-country governments choose the strength of collective-bargaining rights that allow their workers to receive a share of the resulting quasi-rents. Each government must trade off the direct...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322751

The Distortionary Effects of Incentives in Government : Evidence from China's “Death Ceiling” Program

Fisman, Raymond - 2017

We study a 2004 program designed to motivate Chinese bureaucrats to reduce accidental deaths. Each province received a set of 'death ceilings' that, if exceeded, would impede government officials' promotions. For each category of accidental deaths, we observe a sharp discontinuity in reported...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455583

What is the Business of Business?

Nilsson, Andreas - 2017

This paper develops a simple framework for understanding the emergence of new organizational forms, such as socially responsible firms and social entrepreneurs, that embody the private sector's efforts to resolve problems that typically have been within the purview of government and traditional...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455177

Equilibrium Consequences of Corruption on Firms : Evidence from China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign

Ding, Haoyuan - 2020

We use China's recent anti-corruption campaign as a natural experiment to examine the (market expected) equilibrium … consequences of (anti-)corruption. We argue that the announcement of inspections of provincial governments by the Central … Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on May 17, 2013 represents a significant departure of past norms of anti-corruption …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479180

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last