TY  - GEN
AU  - Santos, Cezar
TI  - Research Insights: How Does the Enforcement of Labor Market Regulations Affect Informality and Firms?
PY  - 2024
Y1  - 2024/12/13
DO  - 10.18235/0013329
AB  - Labor inspections reduce informality but slow firm growth: inspections mandate formalization and impose fines, causing immediate compliance but long-term stagnation in growth for audited firms in Brazil. Informality is pervasive: both large and small firms hire informal workers, and informal workers are similar to formal employees in age, education, and gender but earn slightly less. Inspections dampen innovation and dynamism: firms subjected to audits innovate less, with declines in trademark registrations and organizational complexity.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18235/0013329
ER  -