Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean

By James J. Heckman, Carmen Pagés. 2004

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Do Global Value Chains Enhance Economic Upgrading? A Long View (2020, background): “With the emergence of GVCs, the economic effects of exporting become less visible, as they materialise not only in the exporting industry, but also in all other domestic industries that deliver intermediates, an old idea going back to at least Hirschman (1958), see also Chenery et al.”
Who Pays for It? The Heterogeneous Wage Effects of Employment Protection Legislation (2013, unknown): “21 Heckman and Pagès (2004) develop a measure of the expected present discounted cost to the rm, at the time a worker is hired, associated with severance payments to that worker in the future (they also take into account notice period, which is not of interest here).”
Enforcement of Labor Regulation and Informality (2011, background): “The constitution of 1988 introduced several changes to the labor code, which increased the degree of worker's 6 See, for example, Kugler (1999, 2001, 2004), Eslava, Haltiwanger, Kugler and Kugler (2006), Ahsan and Pages (2007), Petrin and Sivadasan (2006), or the studies in Heckman and Pages (2004).”
The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wages, Work and Poverty in Nicaragua (2011, background): “Chile 1960-1998.”
Cross Country Differences in Job Reallocation: The Role of Industry, Firm Size and Regulations (2014, unknown): “Previous research (see, for example, Caballero et al. (2004), Heckman and Pages (2004)) suggests that the degree of enforcement of labour regulations – as well as other regulations – can significantly affect their impact on the economy.”
Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence (2005, unknown): “See Heckman and Pages (2003) on the effect of labor market regulation in Latin America.”
Productivity and resource misallocation in Latin America1) (2012, background): “Heckman and Pagés (2003) show that in Latin America, firing and hiring”
Big Constraints to Small Firms’ Growth? Business Environment and Employment Growth across Firms (2009, background): “A number of studies have focused on cross-country variation to identify the effect of labor regulations (Botero et al. 2004; Heckman and Pagés 2004), regulation of entry (Djankov et al. 2002), or a wide set of regulations (Loayza, Oviedo, and Servén 2006).”
Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy (2016, unknown): “Heckman and Pages (2004) survey labor market regulations and reforms in Latin America, noting that openness to international trade increased the demand for labor market flexibility.”
The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins (2008, unknown): “In contrast, Heckman and Pages (2004) see no tendency for liberalization in Latin America during the 1990s.”
Informal employment: Two contested policy issues (2008, background): “…weak as the relationship is for the full sample of countries, for samples of developing countries it is non-existent.21 The volume Law and Employment, edited by Heckman and Pagés (2004), surveys and compiles a number of studies on the impact of labour regulations in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
Does formality improve micro-firm performance? Evidence from the Brazilian SIMPLES program (2011, background): “See the Technical appendix for the formulas used to create the weights.”