Employment protection legislation in Russia: regional enforcement and labour market outcomes

Arbeitspapier

Since formal laws can be observed or ignored to varying degrees, the actual enforcement regime shapes incentives and constraints. Most of the studies exploring EPL effects on labour market performance implicitly assume that EPL compliance is near to complete and therefore all firms bear full adjustment costs incurred by the regulations. This seems to be a very strong assumption for any country but it sounds especially strong and hardly plausible for developing and transition economies. But if compliance and enforcement varies widely across regions/cities or segments of firms, then this variation is likely to cause variation in performance. This paper looks at Russia in particular. The main idea of this paper is to analize cross-regional and inter-temporal variation in EPL enforcement and to explore empirically whether it is translated into regional labour market outcomes. The paper employs unique data set based on the State Labour Inspectorate data and the Supreme Court statistics on labour disputes.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4484

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Labor Demand ; Dispute Resolution: Strikes, Arbitration, and Mediation; Collective Bargaining ; Labor Law ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
• Thema: Employment protection regulations ; enforcement ; employment ; unemployment ; regional labor markets ; Russia ; Arbeitnehmerschutz ; Rechtsdurchsetzung ; Normbefolgung ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt ; Regionale Arbeitslosigkeit ; Russland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Gimpelson, Vladimir ; Kapelyushnikov, Rostislav ; Lukiyanova, Anna
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2009

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36324
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-20091019337
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ