Employment Law

Christine Jolls

Chapter 17 in Handbook of Law and Economics, 2007, vol. 2, pp 1349-1386 from Elsevier

Abstract: Legal rules governing the employer-employee relationship are many and varied. Economic analysis has illuminated both the efficiency and the effects on employee welfare of such rules, as described in this chapter. Topics addressed below include workplace safety mandates, compensation systems for workplace injuries, privacy protection in the workplace, employee fringe benefits mandates, targeted mandates such as medical and family leave, wrongful discharge laws, unemployment insurance systems, minimum wage rules, and rules requiring that employees receive overtime pay. Both economic theory and empirical evidence are considered.

Keywords: Employment law; workplace safety; workplace privacy; benefits mandates; wrongful discharge law; overtime pay rules (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-444-53120-9
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