In a stylized model of multinational firms choosing host locations for their global value chains, host-country governments choose the strength of collective-bargaining rights that allow their workers to receive a share of the resulting quasi-rents. Each government must trade off the direct...

The dataset contains the indicator for temporary employment that measures the strictness of regulation on the use of fixed-term and temporary work agency contracts. The OECD indicators of employment protection are synthetic indicators of the strictness of regulation on dismissals and the use of...

Consistent with the existing evidence from a single country study, our differences-in-differences estimation finds a negative effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) provisions on labor productivity in a sample of OECD countries. Our study is distinct, however, in that we provide...

This paper uses administrative data to analyze a policy that lowered payroll taxes and severance payments for workers older than 45 hired on open-ended contracts. We find small positive effects on open-ended employment. Instead, firms use the money they save on open-ended workers to increase...

This paper analyses the relationship between compliance with trade union rights and donors’ aid decisions as evidenced through multi-bilateral contributions to the ILO and a database of Labour Rights’ Indicators. Despite trade union rights being a fundamental worker right that all ILO Member...

Attempts to investigate working conditions and labour rights in the UK gig economy have been hampered by the hard-to-reach nature of this population. Most existing studies have overcome this difficulty by using a qualitative research design where sample size is less important. When UK...

We study the welfare implications of employment protection for older workers, exploiting recent bans on mandatory retirement across Canadian provinces. Using linked employer- employee tax data, we show that the bans cause large and similar reductions in job separation rates and retirement...

The following is a brief introduction to the book Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights by Professor Gordon. In 1992, Gordon founded the Workplace Project to help immigrant workers in the underground suburban economy of Long Island, New York. In this book, she tells the unexpected...

This paper proposes an ex ante evaluation of the effects of new labor contracts such as the ""Contrat Nouvelle Embauche"" (CNE) introduced in France in 2005. The lessons we draw are of sufficiently general interest to be applicable to other countries or reforms of employment protection laws....