Inequality and Employment in a Dual Economy:Enforcement of Labor Regulation in Brazil

This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations onunemployment and inequality, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricterenforcement (affecting the payment of mandated benefits to formal workers) leads to: higherunemployment, less income inequality, a higher proportion of formal employment, and alower formal wage premium...

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Year of publication:	2007-10-01
Authors:	Almeida, Rita ; Carneiro, Pedro
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Regulierung \| Arbeitsrecht \| Durchsetzung \| Enforcement

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Extent:	275456 bytes 49 p. application/pdf
Series:	IZA - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Discussion Papers IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 3094 (2007)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; J23 - Employment Determination; Job Creation; Demand for Labor; Self-Employment ; J30 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs. General ; K31 - Labor Law ; Labour law and industrial relations ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; Brazil
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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