This study explores the organization of the Korean labor market, systemic faults in it leading to undesirable outcomes and their determinants, and consequences for workers and employers. Long-term implications for the arrangement and cohesion of society at large are discussed. The study has...

This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations on unemployment and inequality, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricter enforcement (affecting the payment of mandated benefits to formal workers) leads to: higher unemployment, less income...

This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system as being a major determinant of the cross-country variation in the rigidity of employment...

Aus der Kooperation der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung mit dem israelischen Marco Center for Political Economics ist ein "Länderbericht Ägypten" hervorgegangen. Er befasst sich mit Armut und Einkommensverteilung, Bildung und Arbeitsmarkt, Emigration, den Arbeitsbeziehungen und Handelsabkommen.