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Enforcement and the effective regulation of labor

Ronconi, Lucas - 2015

This paper provides new measures of labor law enforcement across the world. The constructed dataset shows that … countries with more stringent de jure regulation tend to enforce less. While civil law countries tend to have more stringent de … stringent de jure labor regulations, lower overall labor inspection, and larger differences in effective regulation of bigger …

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Labour regulations in India : rationalising the laws governing wages

Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2017

In this paper, we undertake an evaluation of the laws governing wages in India, identify their shortcomings and offer suggestions for improvement. In doing so, we analyze the provisions in the relevant ILO Conventions and look at the laws and practice in selected developed and emerging...

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The aggregate implications of size dependent distortions

Roys, Nicolas - 2016

have 50 employees or more face substantially more regulation than firms that have less than 50. The size distribution of … developed with a payroll tax of 0.15% that only applies to firm above 50 employees. Removing the regulation improves labor …

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The impact of expanding worker rights to informal workers : evidence from child labor legislation

Lakdawala, Leah K.; Heredia, Diana Martínez; Cossío, … - 2023

We study the effects of a Bolivian law that introduced benefits and protections for child workers (who are overwhelmingly informal workers) and lowered the de facto legal working age from 14 to 10. We employ a difference-in-discontinuity approach that exploits the variation in the law's...

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Historic breakthrough for social and solidarity economy at the International Labour Organization

Jenkins, Hamish - 2023

For more than two decades, a growing global movement has been promoting the social and solidarity economy (SSE) as a viable alternative socioeconomic approach to the manyfold challenges of sustainable development. This growing movement has been advocating for the UN system and its member states...

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