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Enforcement spillovers under different networks : the case of quotas for persons with disabilities in Brazil

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Gagete-Miranda, Jessica - 2024

This study examines labor law enforcement spillovers in Brazil's highly informal economy, focusing on disability quota enforcement for formal firms. New inspection procedures increased compliance through heightened inspections and fines, boosting disability hiring. We investigate spillover...

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In-kind transfers as insurance

Gadenne, Lucie; Norris, Samuel; Singhal, Monica; … - 2022

In-kind transfers can provide insurance beneﬁts when prices of consumption goods vary, as is common in developing countries. We develop a model demonstrating that in-kind transfers are welfare improving to beneﬁciaries relative to cash if the covariance between the marginal utility of income...

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Dependence or constraints? : labor supply responses from a cash transfer program

Vera Cossío, Diego Alejandro - 2019

Decreases in labor supply among cash-transfer recipients are often cited as potential drawbacks of social-assistance programs. However, cash transfers can also increase employment. Using variation across cohorts and over time in the eligibility criteria of a nationwide conditional cash-transfer...

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A rapid road to employment? : the impacts of a bus rapid transit system in Lima

Scholl, Lynn; Martinez, Daniel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; … - 2018

Despite the growing interest in and proliferation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems around the world, their causal impacts on labor market outcomes remain unexplored. Reduced travel times for those who live near BRT stations or near feeder lines, may increase access to a wider array of job...

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US free trade agreements and enforcement of labor law in Latin America

Dewan, Sabina; Ronconi, Lucas - 2014

This paper analyzes whether Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) signed between the United States and Latin American countries 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...

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The Plaintiff’s role in enforcing a court ruling : evidence from a labor court in Mexico

Kaplan, David Scott; Sadka, Joyce C. - 2011

We analyze the outcomes of 332 cases from a labor court in Mexico in which a judge awarded money to a plaintiff who claimed to have been fired by a firm without cause. The judgments were enforced in only 40% of the cases. A plaintiff may try to enforce a judgment by petitioning the court to...

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Enforcement and the effective regulation of labor

Ronconi, Lucas - 2015

This paper provides new measures of labor law enforcement across the world. The constructed dataset shows that countries with more stringent de jure regulation tend to enforce less. While civil law countries tend to have more stringent de jure labor codes as predicted by legal origin theory,...

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Employee representation legislations and innovation

Belloc, Filippo - 2016

We analyse how countries' innovation outcomes are affected by national legislations of worker participation to corporate governance. We develop a model of employee representation laws (ERL) and innovation in the presence of incomplete labour contracts and predict heterogeneous ERL effects across...

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Maternity and labor markets : impact of legislation in Colombia

Ramírez Bustamante, Natalia; Tribin Uribe, Ana Maria; … - 2015

This study seeks to determine the impact on female labor outcomes of the amendment to the Colombian labor law that extended maternity leave from 12 to 14 weeks (Law 1468 of July 2011). To identify this impact, labor market outcomes of two groups of women with different fertility rates are...

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Politics and economics of second-best regulation of greenhouse gases : the importance of regulatory credibility

Bosetti, Valentina; Victor, David G. - 2010

another factor that analysts have largely ignored: credibility. In the real world governments find it difficult to craft and …-world modelling exercises. As credibility declines the cost of coordinated international regulation skyrockets—even in developing … treaties are usually weak, governments must rely on their own actions to boost regulatory credibility—for example, governments …

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