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This paper explores microdata from Argentine household surveys to analyze how changes in the enforcement of labor regulations affect the compliance level and other labor outcomes among men and women. Using information of the highly decentralized labor inspection system in Argentina, I construct...
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‘labour market deregulation'. In this article, ‘deregulation' is not equated with the removal of regulation; rather it is … defined to mean the removal of a particular kind of regulation – protective regulation. Applying this concept to the 457 … argues that this program was deregulated under the Coalition Government (1996-2007) while being subject to re-regulation …
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Somewhat surprisingly, cross-country empirical evidence (at least in the cross section) does not seem to support the predictions of standard models that economies with stricter regulations on hiring and firing should have a lower pace of job reallocation. One problem in exploring these issues...
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efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …
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struggles and legislative efforts that first led to their regulation in the Progressive Era and closes with the campaign by the … regulation of the job-brokering functions of commercial LMIs by introducing transparency for its deployment functions and …
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Occupational licensing and non-competition agreements are two important types of labour market regulation in the United … States, both covering around one fifth of all workers. While some regulation is needed to protect safety and ensure quality … these barriers. The States are mainly responsible for labour market regulation and the variation across States is similar to …
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This study presents a comparative analysis of regulatory thresholds applicable to firms in France and in Germany. A central question tackled by the report is whether regulations related to limits on firms’ employment appear to prevent French firms from growing above these thresholds. The first...
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What is the role played by collective bargaining in the regulation of the labour market in the context of European … states of the European Union represent an innovation in the joint regulation of the labour market. The notion of joint … regulation is defined in reference to Reynaud (1989, 2001), as sets of rules jointly defined by unions, employers and, in some …
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rigid regulation. This paper shows that these two features are related and together make the speed of adjustment of …
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