Determinants of Hourly Earnings in Ecuador: The Role of Labor Market Regulations
利用1994年生活水平测量调查数据，分析厄瓜多尔法定福利对小时收入的影响，发现企业通过降低基础工资来抵消福利成本，且这种抵消在私营部门更显著，对工会工人影响较小。
Ecuadorian labor costs are said to be high because of the existence of many mandated benefits. Using the 1994 Living Standards Measurement Survey, we show that the effect of these benefits is actually mitigated by a reduction of base earnings, that is, of the foundation on which they are paid. The reduction is larger in the private than in the public sector and is negligible for unionized workers. We also show that, in spite of mandated benefits, interindustry wage differentials are comparable to those of Bolivia, a country characterized by "flexible" labor markets but otherwise similar to Ecuador.