Labor Market Regulations in Low-, Middle- and High-Income Countries: A New Panel Database

July 1, 2011

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Martin Schindler, and Mariya Aleksynska. Labor Market Regulations in Low-, Middle- and High-Income Countries: A New Panel Database, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed December 3, 2024

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Summary

This paper documents a new database of labor market regulations during 1980-2005 in 91 countries, including low-, middle- and high-income countries, and contains information on unemployment insurance systems, minimum wage regulations, and employment protection legislation. In this paper, we provide details regarding the data, methodology and sources. Descriptive statistics indicate that there exists substantial heterogeneity in labor market institutions across regions and income groupings, and that much of the sample variation is driven by institutional changes over time in low- and middle-income countries. All indicators are at an annual frequency, allowing for the dating of major changes in regulation, and are based on data from a variety of sources, including the ILO, OECD and national agencies.

Subject: Labor, Labor market institutions, Labor market regulations, Labor markets, Minimum wages, Wages

Keywords: Advance notice, Asia and Pacific, Benefit coverage, Benefit recipient, Central Asia, Country, Coverage ratio, DB database, Descriptive statistics, East Asia, Gross replacement rate, Labor market, Labor market institutions, Labor market regulations, Labor markets, Minimum wage, Minimum wages, North America, OECD country, OECD database, Severance pay, Severance payment, UI benefit, Unemployment benefit, Unemployment benefit systems, Unemployment insurance, Wage, Wage data, Wages, Western Europe, WP

Publication Details

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76
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Working Paper No. 2011/154
Stock No:

WPIEA2011154
ISBN:

9781455290673
ISSN:

1018-5941

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