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Labour law
About: Labour law is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 8224 publications have been published within this topic receiving 79558 citations. The topic is also known as: employment law & labour law.
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TL;DR: Botero et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the regulation of labor markets through employment, collective relations, and social security laws in 85 countries and found that the political power of the left is associated with more stringent labor regulations and more generous social security systems, and that socialist, French and Scandinavian legal origin countries have sharply higher levels of labor regulation than do common law countries.
Abstract: Author(s): Botero, Juan; Djankov, Simeon; La Porta, Rafael; Lopez-de-Silanes, Florencio; Shleifer, Andrei | Abstract: We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment, collective relations, and social security laws in 85 countries. We find that the political power of the left is associated with more stringent labor regulations and more generous social security systems, and that socialist, French and Scandinavian legal origin countries have sharply higher levels of 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 and higher unemployment, especially of the young. These results are most naturally consistent with legal theories, according to which countries have pervasive regulaory styles inherited from the transplantation of legal systems.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the labour market institutions on which policy should be focused are unions and social security systems Encouraging product market competition is a key policy to eliminate the negative effects of unions.
Abstract: Barely a day goes by without some expert telling us how the continental European economies are about to disintegrate unless their labour markets become more flexible Basically, we are told, Europe has the wrong sort of labour market institutions for the modern global economy These outdated institutions both raise unemployment and lower growth rates The truth of propositions such as these depends on which labour market institutions really are bad for unemployment and growth, and which are not Our purpose in this paper is to set out what we know about this question Our conclusions indicate that the labour market institutions on which policy should be focused are unions and social security systems Encouraging product market competition is a key policy to eliminate the negative effects of unions For social security the key policies are benefit reform linked to active labour market policies to move people from welfare to work By comparison, time spent worrying about strict labour market regulations, employment protection and minimum wages is probably time largely wasted
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated hypotheses generated by the veto players' theory and found that an increase in the number of veto players and their ideological distance from one another will reduce the ability of both government and parliament to produce significant laws.
Abstract: This article investigates hypotheses generated by the veto players' theory. The fundamental insight of this theory is that an increase in the number of veto players (for all practical purposes, in parliamentary systems the number of parties in government) and their ideological distance from one another will reduce the ability of both government and parliament to produce significant laws. In addition, the number of significant laws increases with the duration of a government and with an increase in the ideological difference between current and previous government. These propositions are tested with legislative data (both laws and government decrees) on working time and working conditions identified in two legislative sources: the NATLEX computerized database in Geneva (produced by the International Labour organization) and Blanpain's International Encyclopedia for Labour Law and Industrial Relations. The data cover fifteen West European countries for the period 1981–91. The evidence corroborates the proposed hypotheses.
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01 Jun 2000
TL;DR: Kabeer as discussed by the authors examines the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers to shed light on the question of what constitutes "fair" competition in international trade and argues that any attempt to devise acceptable labour standards at an international level which takes no account of the forces of inclusion and exclusion with local labour markets is likely to represent the interests of the powerful at the expense of the weak.
Abstract: In this path breaking study, social economist Naila Kabeer examines the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers to shed light on the question of what constitutes "fair" competition in international trade. She argues that if the unhealthy coalition of multinationals and labour movements is truly seeking to improve the working conditions for women and children in the 'third World', as well as those of western workers, their efforts should be directed away from an attempt to impose labour standards and towards a support for the organisation of labour rights. Any attempt to devise acceptable labour standards at an international level which takes no account of the forces of inclusion and exclusion with local labour markets is, she further argues, likely to represent the interests of the powerful at the expense of the weak.
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TL;DR: The International Labour Organization (ILO) has reached a venerable old age, celebrating its ninetieth birthday in 2009 as mentioned in this paper, and it was established in the wake of the First World War by the Treaty of Versa...
Abstract: The International Labour Organization (ILO) has reached a venerable old age, celebrating its ninetieth birthday in 2009. It was established in the wake of the First World War by the Treaty of Versa...
445 citations