摘要：Unionists and politicians frequently claim that globalization lowers employment
protection of workers. This paper tests this hypothesis in a panel of 28 OECD countries
from 1985 to 2003, differentiating between three dimensions of globalization and two
labor market segments. While overall globalization is shown to loosen protection of the
regularly employed, it increases regulation in the segment of limited-term contracts. We
find the economic one to drive deregulation for the regularly employed, but the social one
to be responsible for the better protection of workers in atypical employment. We offer
political economy arguments as explanations for these differential effects.
关键词：Globalization, international trade, integration, employment protection, labor
standards, unions, cross-country analysis, panel data analysis
