The existing literature investigating the labor market impact of immigration assumes, implicitly or explicitly, that the law or labor regulation is exogenous to immigration. To test this assumption, we build a novel workers' protection measure based on 36 labor law variables that capture labor...

This article examines Australia's main temporary labour migration scheme, the 457 visa program, through the concept of ‘labour market deregulation'. In this article, ‘deregulation' is not equated with the removal of regulation; rather it is defined to mean the removal of a particular kind of...

In the twentieth century two intellectual traditions were the most influential in the American field of labor economics. The first was the tradition of institutional economics (IE) and its close offshoot industrial relations (IR), the second was the tradition of neoclassical economics (NE). This...

This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...

The Eastern enlargement of the European Union and the requirements of the European Monetary Union call for increased flexibility of labour markets in both the current EU members and candidate countries. If labour markets and institutions are rigid in the monetary union, market disequilibrium is...

The authors considered the international and regional framework and the (in)flexibility of labour and social regulation, the lack of coordination, and the limited nature of exportability and portability arrangements in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The focus is the social...