International immigration and labor regulation
研究了移民如何影响东道国的劳动法规，发现移民带来的规范和经历会推动劳动法律演变，尤其体现在工人代表法和就业形式法上。
Abstract This paper empirically examines how labor regulation responds to immigration. We build a novel workers' protection measure based on 36 labor law variables that capture labor regulation over a sample of 70 developed and developing countries from 1970 to 2010. Exploiting a dynamic panel setting using both internal and external instruments, we establish a new result: immigrants' norms and experience of labor regulation influence the evolution of host countries' labor law regulation. This effect is particularly strong for two components of workers' protection: worker representation laws and employment forms laws. Our main results are consistent with suggestive evidence on the transmission of preferences from migrants to natives and local political parties (horizontal transmission). Finally, we find that the size of the immigrant population per se has a small and negligible impact on host‐country labor market regulation.