| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP11098
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| DP11098 Enforcement Matters: The Effective Regulation of Labor |
| Ravi Kanbur; Lucas Ronconi
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| 发表日期 | 2016-02-07
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| 出版年 | 2016
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper provides, to our knowledge for the first time, cross-country measures of enforcement of labor law across almost every country in the world. The distinction between de jure and de facto regulation is well understood in theory, but almost never implemented in cross-country empirical work because of lack of data. As a result, influential papers like the one by Botero et. al. (2004) published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which have shaped the policy debate by finding strong negative consequences of labor regulation on labor market outcomes, are based entirely on measures of de jure stringency of regulations. We show that this neglect of regulation enforcement matters. There is, on average, a negative correlation between the stringency of labor regulation and the intensity of its enforcement. The strong results of Botero et. al. (2004) on the consequences of labor regulation, and the hypotheses of La Porta et. al (2008) on the legal origin theory of regulation stringency, no longer hold for effective labor regulation. |
| 主题 | Development Economics
; Labour Economics
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| 关键词 | Effective regulation
Enforcement
Labor market outcomes
Labor regulation
Legal origin theory
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp11098
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/539926
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Ravi Kanbur,Lucas Ronconi. DP11098 Enforcement Matters: The Effective Regulation of Labor. 2016.
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