TY  - JOUR
AU  - Montenegro, Claudio
AU  - Pages, Carmen
TI  - Who Benefits from Labor Market Regulations? Chile 1960-1998
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9850
PY  - 2003
Y2  - July 2003
DO  - 10.3386/w9850
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9850
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9850.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Claudio E. Montenegro

Carmen Pagés
E-Mail: carmenpag@iadb.org
M1  - published as Claudio E. Montenegro, Carmen Pagés. "Who Benefits from Labor Market Regulations? Chile, 1960-1998," in James J. Heckman and Carmen Pagés, editors, "Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean" University of Chicago Press (2004)

AB  - Economists have examined the impact of labor market regulations on the level of employment. However, there are many reasons to suspect that the impact of regulations differs across types of workers. In this paper we take advantage of the unusual large variance in labor policy in Chile to exa mine how different labor market regulations affect the distribution of employment and the employment rates across age, gender and skill levels. To this effect, we use a sample of repeated cross-section household surveys spanning the period 1960-1998 and measures of the evolution of job security provisions and minimum wages across time. Our results suggest large distribution effects. We find that employment security provisions and minimum wages reduce the share of youth and unskilled employment as well as their employment rates. We also find large effects on the distribution of employment between women and men.
ER  -