during the last decade produced higher enforcement of labor regulations. The paper computes before-after estimates of the … effect of FTAs on labor inspections and exploits variation across countries using non-signers as a comparison group. The … of labor inspectors and a 60 percent increase in the number of inspections. The North American Free Trade Agreement …

finds that the main factor contributing to poverty reduction has been individuals' changes in labor earnings, and the role …

This paper provides new measures of labor law enforcement across the world. The constructed dataset shows that … jure labor codes as predicted by legal origin theory, they enforce them less, suggesting a more nuanced version of legal … created economies characterized by monopolies and exploitation of workers, which ultimately led to stringent labor laws in an …