Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73731 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
ifo Working Paper No. 154
Publisher: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Abstract: 
A widespread concern is that labor market institutions erode in the course of globalization, which, in turn, decreases employment and wages. By using panel data and crosssectional data, I investigate the influence of globalization on labor market regulation. I use the indicators of labor market institutions by Gwartney et al. (2012) and the KOF indices of globalization. To deal with potential reverse causality, I employ a system GMM panel estimator and use a constructed trade share as proposed by Frankel and Romer (1999) as an instrumental variable for globalization in cross sectional models. The results do not show that globalization induced labor market deregulation.
Subjects: 
Globalization
labor market institutions
JEL: 
F57
F16
J58
J88
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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