Enforcement of labor market regulations: heterogeneous compliance and adjustment across gender

Autores
Viollaz, Mariana
Año de publicación
2016
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This paper explores microdata from Argentine household surveys to analyze how changes in the enforcement of labor regulations affect the compliance level and other labor outcomes among men and women. Using information of the highly decentralized labor inspection system in Argentina, I construct an enforcement measure with variation at the province, sector and time level (share of inspected firms) which I instrument using a measure of the arrival cost of labor inspectors to the firms. The main findings reveal that when enforcement increases, the compliance with mandated benefits and formal wages increase among men, while informal wages decline. Among women, the compliance level declines jointly with informal wages. These heterogenous impacts are explained by labor regulations that make formal and informal men more substitutable in the production process than formal and informal women.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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Ciencias Económicas
enforcement of labor regulations
compliance with labor regulations
gender
Argentina
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title Enforcement of labor market regulations: heterogeneous compliance and adjustment across gender
spellingShingle Enforcement of labor market regulations: heterogeneous compliance and adjustment across gender
Viollaz, Mariana
Ciencias Económicas
enforcement of labor regulations
compliance with labor regulations
gender
Argentina
title_short Enforcement of labor market regulations: heterogeneous compliance and adjustment across gender
title_full Enforcement of labor market regulations: heterogeneous compliance and adjustment across gender
title_fullStr Enforcement of labor market regulations: heterogeneous compliance and adjustment across gender
title_full_unstemmed Enforcement of labor market regulations: heterogeneous compliance and adjustment across gender
title_sort Enforcement of labor market regulations: heterogeneous compliance and adjustment across gender
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Viollaz, Mariana
author Viollaz, Mariana
author_facet Viollaz, Mariana
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
enforcement of labor regulations
compliance with labor regulations
gender
Argentina
topic Ciencias Económicas
enforcement of labor regulations
compliance with labor regulations
gender
Argentina
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This paper explores microdata from Argentine household surveys to analyze how changes in the enforcement of labor regulations affect the compliance level and other labor outcomes among men and women. Using information of the highly decentralized labor inspection system in Argentina, I construct an enforcement measure with variation at the province, sector and time level (share of inspected firms) which I instrument using a measure of the arrival cost of labor inspectors to the firms. The main findings reveal that when enforcement increases, the compliance with mandated benefits and formal wages increase among men, while informal wages decline. Among women, the compliance level declines jointly with informal wages. These heterogenous impacts are explained by labor regulations that make formal and informal men more substitutable in the production process than formal and informal women.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
description This paper explores microdata from Argentine household surveys to analyze how changes in the enforcement of labor regulations affect the compliance level and other labor outcomes among men and women. Using information of the highly decentralized labor inspection system in Argentina, I construct an enforcement measure with variation at the province, sector and time level (share of inspected firms) which I instrument using a measure of the arrival cost of labor inspectors to the firms. The main findings reveal that when enforcement increases, the compliance with mandated benefits and formal wages increase among men, while informal wages decline. Among women, the compliance level declines jointly with informal wages. These heterogenous impacts are explained by labor regulations that make formal and informal men more substitutable in the production process than formal and informal women.
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