We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment, collective relations, and social security laws in 85 … labor regulation than do common law countries. However, the effects of legal origins are larger, and explain more of the … variation in regulations, than those of politics. Heavier regulation of labor is associated with lower labor force participation …

We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment, collective relations, and social security laws in 85 … labor regulation than do common law countries. However, the effects of legal origins are larger, and explain more of the … variation in regulations, than those of politics. Heavier regulation of labor is associated with lower labor force participation …

We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security … generous social security systems. Socialist and French legal origin countries have sharply higher levels of labor regulation …. Heavier regulation of labor is associated with a larger unofficial economy, lower labor force participation, and higher …

We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security … generous social security systems. Socialist and French legal origin countries have sharply higher levels of labor regulation …. Heavier regulation of labor is associated with a larger unofficial economy, lower labor force participation, and higher …

and Spain. An increase in the contemporaneous local unemployment rate of 1 p.p. diminished contemporaneous mean wages by … contract renewal reduced wages by 0.7 p.p., an impact driven by wages close to the negotiated wage floors. Even though the … market conditions at the time of bargaining. The results support the hypothesis that (most) wages respond to local current …

growth in regulations to protect workers from low wages and poor working conditions. Several institutional structures shape …

compensation costs for affected nonprofits during the post-regulation periods have increased by about 6.3 percent more when …