Issue Information – TOC

• Date: 01 September 2018
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12063
• Published date: 01 September 2018

International

Labour

Review

2018 3 > Volume 157/3 September

Contents

331 Enforcement matters: The effective regulation of labour

Ravi KANBUR and Lucas RONCONI

The distinction between de jure and de facto regulation is well understood in theory,

but has rarely been applied to cross-country empirical work on the impact of labour

regulation on labour market outcomes for lack of data. Policy debate has been

based on measures of stringency of law, suggesting a negative correlation between

labour regulation and labour market outcomes. This article provides new cross-

country measures of labour law enforcement and evidence of a negative correlation

between stringency and intensity of enforcement. Previous results concerning the

consequences of labour regulation and the legal origins theory no longer hold when

a measure of effective labour regulation is used.

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357 Wage distribution and rm size. The case of the United States

Damir COSIC

Substantial literature has been produced on the increasing wage gap in the United

States, invoking various possible factors, but largely ignoring the relationship

between firm size and wage distribution. In this study, the author decomposes wage

differences over time between large, medium and small firms, identifying the effects

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