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 …

jure labor codes as predicted by legal origin theory, they enforce them less, suggesting a more nuanced version of legal …This paper provides new measures of labor law enforcement across the world. The constructed dataset shows that … origin theory. The paper further hypothesizes that in territories where Europeans pursued an extractive strategy, they …