We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security … generous social security systems. Socialist and French legal origin countries have sharply higher levels of labor regulation …. Heavier regulation of labor is associated with a larger unofficial economy, lower labor force participation, and higher …

We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security … generous social security systems. Socialist and French legal origin countries have sharply higher levels of labor regulation …. Heavier regulation of labor is associated with a larger unofficial economy, lower labor force participation, and higher …

We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment, collective relations, and social security laws in 85 … labor regulation than do common law countries. However, the effects of legal origins are larger, and explain more of the … variation in regulations, than those of politics. Heavier regulation of labor is associated with lower labor force participation …

We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security … generous social security systems. Socialist and French legal origin countries have sharply higher levels of labor regulation …. Heavier regulation of labor is associated with a larger unofficial economy, lower labor force participation, and higher …

We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment, collective relations, and social security laws in 85 … labor regulation than do common law countries. However, the effects of legal origins are larger, and explain more of the … variation in regulations, than those of politics. Heavier regulation of labor is associated with lower labor force participation …