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...

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,...

This paper is a contribution to the empirical literature on quantification of labor law violation. It takes up the case of a relatively advanced developing country, Chile, which has a high degree of administrative and bureaucratic capacity. Using micro survey data, the paper establishes the...