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The Regulation of Labor / Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silane, Andrei Shleifer, Juan Botero.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Djankov, Simeon.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w9756.
- NBER working paper series no. w9756
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2003.
- Summary:
- We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security laws in 85 countries. We find that richer countries regulate labor less than poorer countries do, although they have more generous social security systems. The political power of the left is associated with more stringent labor regulations and more generous social security systems. Socialist and French legal origin countries have sharply higher levels of labor regulation than do common law countries, and the inclusion of legal origin wipes out the effect of the political power of the left. Heavier regulation of labor is associated with a larger unofficial economy, lower labor force participation, and higher unemployment, especially of the young. These results are difficult to reconcile with efficiency and political power theories of institutional choice, but are broadly consistent with legal theories, according to which countries have pervasive regulatory styles inherited from the transplantation of legal systems.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2003.
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