TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jolls,Christine
TI  - Employment Law and the Labor Market
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13230
PY  - 2007
Y2  - July 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13230
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13230.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Christine Jolls
Yale Law School
P.O. Box 208215
New Haven, CT 06520
Tel: 203/432-1958
Fax: 203/432-4570
E-Mail: christine.jolls@yale.edu
AB  - Legal rules governing the employer-employee relationship are many and varied.  Economic analysis has illuminated both the efficiency and the effects on employee welfare of such rules, as described in this paper.  Topics addressed include workplace safety mandates, compensation systems for workplace injuries, privacy protection in the workplace, employee fringe benefits mandates, targeted mandates such as medical and family leave, wrongful discharge laws, unemployment insurance systems, minimum wage rules, and rules requiring that employees receive overtime pay.  Both economic theory and empirical evidence are considered.
ER  -