Designing labor market regulations in developing countries

Artikel

Governments regulate employment to protect workers and to improve labor market efficiency. However, employment regulations can be controversial, often complicated by opposing ideological views. Thus, it is important for policymakers in developing countries to base decisions on empirical evidence of the impacts of these regulations. The majority of the evidence suggests that most countries have set their regulations in the appropriate range. But it can be costly when countries either overregulate or underregulate their labor market.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2014 ; Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Economics Policies ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy ; Labor Standards: Public Policy
• Subject: labor market regulation ; job security ; minimum wages

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Betcherman, Gordon
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2014

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.15185/izawol.57
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/125277
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET