Labor Market Institutions and Income Inequality: An Empirical Exploration
This paper presents evidence on the impact of labor regulations on income inequality using a recently published database on labor institutions and outcomes as well as different panel data analysis techniques for a large sample of countries for 1970-2000. When applying our preferred technique we find that both de jure and de facto regulations improve the distribution of income although the former appear to be non-robustly associated with improving income inequality. This result partly reflects the fact that regulations are endogenous and, more interestingly, that different regulation yield distinct effects.
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Format: | Journal Article biblioteca |
Language: | EN |
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2009
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Subjects: | Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310, Labor Economics Policies J080, Economics of Regulation L510, |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5488 |
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Summary: | This paper presents evidence on the impact of labor regulations on income inequality using a recently published database on labor institutions and outcomes as well as different panel data analysis techniques for a large sample of countries for 1970-2000. When applying our preferred technique we find that both de jure and de facto regulations improve the distribution of income although the former appear to be non-robustly associated with improving income inequality. This result partly reflects the fact that regulations are endogenous and, more interestingly, that different regulation yield distinct effects. |
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