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Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean / James Heckman, Carmen Pages.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heckman, James.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w10129.
- NBER working paper series no. w10129
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Law and Employment
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2003.
- Summary:
- This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a forthcoming NBER book. It places Latin American economies and economic policies in a world context. The paper quantifies the cost of regulation in Latin America and OECD Europe and discusses the origin of regulation. It shows the fragility of time series data analyses of the sort widely used to analyze the impact of regulation in OECD Europe and the benefits of using microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers and generates inequality in the larger society.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 2003.
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