We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to bind on firms with exactly 50 or more employees....

This chapter critiques the claims that restricting access by small business employees to labour law protections, such as statutory remedies for unfair dismissal, is essential to promoting the growth of these businesses. It argues that, in the absence of evidence of detriment caused to such...

This paper examines the application of labour law in micro and small enterprises (MSEs) by comparing the practices in various member States of the ILO. Extending the coverage of labour law to numerous MSEs has been problematic in several countries largely due to practical reasons of the limited...

The small firm exemption is a provision of Title VII and the other major federal employment discrimination laws that exempts very small firms from coverage as "employers." Under the Title VII version of the exemption, for example, an employer is exempt as long as it employs no more than fourteen...