This paper empirically explores the incidence of labor inspections across firms in 72 developing countries. Given the relatively little knowledge on the behavior of labor inspection agencies, our objective is to present a collection of stylized facts on the incidence of enforcement. Our findings consistently show that larger firms are more likely to be inspected than smaller firms. Interestingl...

On January 22, 2004, the President of the AFL-CIO, John J. Sweeney, issued a statement emphasizing the need for instituting a new labor code in Iraq.1 He noted that, in addition to constitutional reform, it was necessary to bring about a fresh labor regime in the country.2 The Code in place prior to the invasion of Iraq had been the 1987 Code enacted by Saddam Hussein.3 This Code, in addition t...

Trade and Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Enforcement of Labor Regulations This paper revisits the question of how trade openness affects labor market outcomes in a developing country setting. We explore the fact that plants face varying degrees of exposure to global markets and to the enforcement of labor market regulations, and rely on Brazil’s currency crisis in 1999 as an exogenous so...

Globalization: The Crucial Phrase brings together scholars of anthropology and social science, as well as law and medicine to examine the challenges and opportunities introduced by rapid globalization, including economic diversity, education, labor, health, and environmental concerns.