This chapter reviews what economists have learned about the impact of labor market
institutions, defined broadly as government regulations and union activity on labor outcomes …

Controversy over labor market policy often centers on achieving a balance between
preventing worker exploitation, and avoiding loss of productivity or employment through …

We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages–in the
United States and in other countries–that was spurred by the new minimum wage research …

We study collective bargaining's effect on relative employment for youth, women, and older
individuals. Our model of collective wage setting predicts that unionization reduces …

The available empirical minimum wage literature, which is mostly based on US evidence, is
not very useful for analyzing developing countries, where the minimum wage affects many …

Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but
inequalities linked to gender norms, stereotypes, and the unequal distribution of housework …

We survey the research on the effect of employment laws in developing countries, using
papers published since 2004. The survey is further supported by cross-country correlation …

" Globalization and Labor Conditions explains how the three main mechanisms of
globalization-trade, international migration, and international capital flows-alter working …

In this book, Per Skedinger gives an excellent and balanced survey and evaluation of both
the theoretical prediction and the empirical research about the consequences of legislated …

While there is strong evidence that more productive plants select into exporting, the literature
has struggled to identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. We show that this is …