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 … stringent de jure labor regulations, lower overall labor inspection, and larger differences in effective regulation of bigger …

One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act … discussed as a pointed labour regulation issue. It has been widely argued that Indian labour law imposes institutional …

recommendations in ILO Conventions. Some of our laws are very complex and this makes enforcement difficult. The Code on Wages Bill …

labour contracts and predict heterogeneous ERL effects across different systems of dismissal regulation. We then perform a …

How does enforcement of labor regulations shape the labor market effects of trade? Does the informal sector introduce … economic shocks generated by trade liberalization and variation in enforcement capacity across local labor markets in Brazil …. In the aftermath of the trade opening, regions with stricter enforcement observed: (i) lower informality effects; (ii …

have 50 employees or more face substantially more regulation than firms that have less than 50. The size distribution of … developed with a payroll tax of 0.15% that only applies to firm above 50 employees. Removing the regulation improves labor …