 Who benefits from labor market regulations? Chile 1960-1998Claudio Montenegro and Carmen Pages No 3143, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank Abstract: Economists have examined the impact of labor market regulations on the level of employment. But there are many reasons to suspect that the impact of regulations differs across types of workers. In this paper the authors take advantage of the unusually large variance in labor policy in Chile to examine how different labor market regulations affect the distribution of employment and the employment rates across age, gender, and skill levels. To this effect, they use a sample of repeated cross-section household surveys spanning the period 1960-98 and measures of the evolution of job security provisions and minimum wages across time. The results suggest large distribution effects. The authors find that employment security provisions and minimum wages reduce the share of youth and unskilled employment as well as their employment rates. They also find large effects on the distribution of employment between women and men. Keywords: Labor Policies; Labor Management and Relations; Environmental Economics&Policies; Public Health Promotion; Health Monitoring&Evaluation; Environmental Economics&Policies; Health Monitoring&Evaluation; Labor Management and Relations; Labor Standards; Youth and Governance (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:3143 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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