Electronic monitoring of working time and labour market outcomes: Evidence from Brazil

IF 1.6 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL Pub Date : 2024-02-18 DOI:10.1111/irj.12423
Ísis F. Lira, Laura de Carvalho Schiavon, Ricardo da Silva Freguglia
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This study analyses the dynamics of registered firms after implementing a new law (2009) in the Brazilian labour market. The law proposed the electronic monitoring of working time to provide more efficiency and security by standardizing the equipment used for control and avoiding manipulation. As stricter monitoring may increase costs, this paper seeks to analyse whether there have been changes in the dynamics of firms adapting to the new regulation. There are two potential mechanisms as a reference: increasing wages and decreasing workers (or contracted hours), and increasing labour force and decreasing contracted hours per worker (and therefore the monthly wage). Using Brazilian employee–employer data and the difference-in-differences approach as an empirical strategy, our main findings suggest that firms that adapt to the new electronic workday control had a general reduction in the number of hours hired, an increase in wages for companies with 10–50 employees and a decrease in workplace accidents in firms with 50 or more employees.

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工作时间和劳动力市场结果的电子监控:巴西的证据
本研究分析了巴西劳动力市场实施新法律(2009 年)后注册公司的动态。该法律建议对工作时间进行电子监控,通过对用于监控的设备进行标准化,避免人为操纵,从而提高效率和安全性。由于更严格的监控可能会增加成本,本文试图分析企业适应新法规的动态是否发生了变化。有两种潜在机制可以作为参考:一是增加工资,减少工人(或合同工时);二是增加劳动力,减少每个工人的合同工时(从而减少月工资)。利用巴西的雇员-雇主数据和差分法作为实证策略,我们的主要研究结果表明,适应新的电子工作日控制的企业普遍减少了雇佣时数,雇员在 10-50 人的企业工资增加,雇员在 50 人以上的企业工伤事故减少。
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