Employment Law and the Labor Market

Christine Jolls

No 13230, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

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 paper. Topics addressed 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.

JEL-codes: J08 J18 J38 K00 K31 K32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-hrm, nep-lab, nep-law and nep-reg
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Published as Jolls, Christine, 2007. "Employment Law," Handbook of Law and Economics, Elsevier.

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