Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world?: Insider-outsider theory revisited

Lucas Ronconi, Ravi Kanbur and Santiago López-Cariboni

No wp-2019-90, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Contrary to the predictions of the insider-outsider model, we show that the large majority of outsiders in developing countries support, rather than oppose, protective labour regulations. This evidence holds across countries in different regions, across different types of protective labour regulations (i.e. severance payment, minimum wages, working time), and for different categories of outsiders (i.e. unemployed workers and employees without access to legally mandated labour benefits).

Keywords: Formal and informal; Labour; Labour market segmentation; Equity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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