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 …

bureaucracy. Using a novel dataset with objective measures of labor inspections and fines across countries, we show that Weberian … bureaucracies are more likely to enforce labor standards. We provide OLS and 2SLS estimates that address endogeneity concerns and … politicized bureaucracies underinvest in labor inspection because elected officials have short-term horizons and do not …

This paper reviews recent efforts in social science to analyze labor enforcement in low-andmiddle income countries … substantial debate and heterogeneity across countries. 3) Countries with more protective labor codes tend to enforce less. 4 … workers can promote higher labor enforcement. 5) Inspection agencies in LMIC tend to focus their efforts on formal firms …

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 …

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 …

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 …