Family Values and the Regulation of Labor
Family Values and the Regulation of Labor
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10.2139/ssrn.1621562
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2010-02
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A. Alesina;Y. Algan;P. Cahuc;Paola Giuliano
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作者：
A. Alesina;Y. Algan;P. Cahuc;Paola Giuliano
为了提高效率，灵活的劳动力市场需要地理上移动的工人。否则，公司可以利用工人的不流动性，以牺牲他们为代价来榨取租金。在家庭关系密切的文化中，离开家是昂贵的。因此，为了限制企业的租金并避免流动，拥有强大家庭关系的个人理性地选择受监管的劳动力市场，即使监管会导致更高的失业率和更低的收入。从经验上看，我们发现，继承了较强家庭关系的个人移动的较少，工资较低，失业率较高，并支持更严格的劳动力市场监管。我们发现，世纪初的劳动力市场刚性与第二次世界大战前盛行的家庭价值观之间存在正相关，中世纪的家庭结构与当前对劳动力市场监管的渴望之间存在正相关。这两个结果都表明，劳动力市场法规有着深刻的文化根源。
To be efficient, flexible labor markets require geographically mobile workers. Otherwise firms can take advantage of workers' immobility and extract rents at their expense. In cultures with strong family ties, moving away from home is costly. Thus, to limit the rents of firms and to avoid moving, individuals with strong family ties rationally choose regulated labor markets, even though regulation generates higher unemployment and lower incomes. Empirically, we find that individuals who inherit stronger family ties are less mobile, have lower wages and higher unemployment, and support more stringent labor market regulations. We find a positive association between labor market rigidities at the beginning of the 21st century and family values prevailing before World War II, and between family structures in the Middle Ages and current desire for labor market regulation. Both results suggest that labor market regulations have deep cultural roots.