Does Equal Pay Legislation Reduce Labour Market Inequality? This paper considers a labour market model of monopsonistic competition with taste-based discrimination against minority workers to study the effect of equal pay legislation on labour market inequality. When the taste for discrimination is small or competition is weak, the policy removes job segregation and the wage gap completely. How...

There is an increasing interest on the impact of immigration affects labour supply of women. In 1978 Singapore introduced legislation (under Chapter 91A) that allowed special visas for foreign domestic workers to enter the country. The Government’s stated objective was to increasing Singaporean women’s labour supply. While Singapore is often cited in the literature as a success case, there have...

South Africa's labour legislation framework, promulgated during the past decade (1994^2004), is regarded as some of the most comprehensive in the world. It has done much to redress the imbalances of the past.With four significant Acts promulgated to regulate andmanage labour relations in the country, there are still areas lagging behind that have a profound influence on the country's economic p...

We construct a political equilibrium in which employers and labour unions bargain over labour contracts, wage-earners and profit-earners lobby the government for taxation and labour market regulation, and labour market legislation must be accepted by the majority of voters. We show that the voters rule out profit sharing, because otherwise the government would capture all the gain. Furthermore,...

In this paper we investigate to what extent the labour market integration of young people within the European Union is influenced by national institutional contexts of both the employment system and the education/training system. For this purpose, data of the 1992-1997 European Community Labour Force Surveys (ECLFS) were used. We looked at three important indicators that capture the (lack of) l...

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