Labor market institutions and income inequality: an empirical exploration
Labor market institutions and income inequality: an empirical exploration
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DOI：
10.1007/s11127-008-9339-1
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
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影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Chong, Alberto
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作者：
Calderon, Cesar;Chong, Alberto
本文使用最近发布的关于劳动制度和结果的数据库以及大样本国家1970-2000年的不同面板数据分析技术，提出了劳动法规对收入不平等影响的证据。在应用我们喜欢的技术时，我们发现，法律法规和事实法规都改善了收入分配，尽管前者似乎与改善收入不平等没有明显联系。这一结果在一定程度上反映了这样一个事实，即监管是内生的，更有趣的是，不同的监管会产生不同的效果。
This paper presents evidence on the impact of labor regulations on income inequality using a recently published database on labor institutions and outcomes as well as different panel data analysis techniques for a large sample of countries for 1970-2000. When applying our preferred technique we find that both de jure and de facto regulations improve the distribution of income although the former appear to be non-robustly associated with improving income inequality. This result partly reflects the fact that regulations are endogenous and, more interestingly, that different regulation yield distinct effects.