Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/127669 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Documento de Trabajo No. 157
Publisher: 
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), La Plata
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the effects of labor regulation on employment for Bolivian registered manufacturing firms during 1988 to 2007. By estimating job flows we find that firms with high temporary worker rates (as a proxy of lower labor regulation costs) are those with both higher job reallocation rates and higher net employment growth, and only they contributed to employment growth during the country economic downturn, 1998-1999. In addition, by estimating demand functions we find that labor regulation changes (measured through the compulsory basic salary and the major labor costs derived from the new pension law) entailed costs in terms of permanent employment losses.
Subjects: 
job flows
labor demand
labor regulation
translog function
unbalanced panel
JEL: 
D24
J01
J23
K31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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