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The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries Since 1960

Campos, Nauro - 2012

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...

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Labour Contract Regulations and Workers' Wellbeing : International Longitudinal Evidence

Salvatori, Andrea - 2010

All industrialized countries have Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) for permanent workers and Restrictions on the use of Temporary Employment (RTE). The (ambiguous) effects of these on the levels of employment and unemployment have been extensively studied, but nothing is known empirically...

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Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations

Marinescu, Ioana; Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron - 2021

Wage inequality does not fully capture differences in job quality. Jobs also differ along other key dimensions, including the prevalence of labor rights violations. We construct novel measures of labor violation rates using data from federal agencies. Within local industries over time, a 10%...

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The Anti-Corruption Campaign and the Inter-Generational Transmission of Working in Bureaucracy : Evidence from China

Chen, Shuai; Ge, Erqi - 2022

those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission … the campaign came into effect in different provincial administrative divisions of mainland China, between individuals with …

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Compensating Differentials for Occupational Health and Safety Risks : Implications of Recent Evidence

Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2022

The most enduring measure of how individuals make personal decisions affecting their health and safety is the compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the labor market via hedonic equilibrium outcomes. The decisions in turn reveal the value of a statistical life (VSL), the...

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Willingness to Pay for Workplace Safety

Anelli, Massimo; Koenig, Felix - 2022

This paper develops a revealed-preference approach that uses budget constrain discontinuities to price workplace safety. We track hourly workers who face the decision of how many hours to work at varying levels of Covid-19 risk and leverage state-specific discontinuities in unemployment...

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Native-Migrant Differences in Trading Off Wages and Workplace Safety

D’Ambrosio, Anna - 2017

Applying propensity score reweighting to Italian administrative data covering the period 1994-2012, we study the conditional distributions of injuries by wage of native and foreign workers and distinguish between the component that is explained by observable characteristics and the component...

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Cognitive Load and Occupational Injuries

Bonsang, Eric; Caroli, Eve - 2021

We investigate the relationship between cognitive load and occupational injuries. Cognitive load is defined in the literature as a tax on bandwidth which reduces cognitive resources. We proxy cognitive load with the number of non-professional tasks that individuals perform during weekdays. The...

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Hedonic Wage Equilibrium : Theory, Evidence and Policy

Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2010

We examine theoretically and empirically the properties of the equilibrium wage function and its implications for policy. Our emphasis is on how the researcher approaches economic and policy questions when there is labor market heterogeneity leading to a set of wages. We focus on the application...

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An Inquiry into the Theory, Causes and Consequences of Monitoring Indicators of Health and Safety at Work

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2010

This paper engages in an interdisciplinary survey of the current state of knowledge related to the theory, determinants and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). First, it synthesizes the available theoretical frameworks used by economists and psychologists to understand the...

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