Complementary Labor Regulation: The Uncoordinated Combination of State and Private Regulators in the Dominican Republic

Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains and Industrial Clusters: Why Governance Matters

“…Future research should make more explicit under what conditions complementary and synergistic forms of governance (or alliances among different governance actors) are likely to emerge, and what enables joint forms of governance to become institutionalized in the cluster (Amengual 2010;Mayer and Gereffi 2010). We also need to know how different paths or trajectories could accelerate social and economic upgrading in developing country clusters.…”

“…Another possibility is that different forms of governance can complement each other (Amengual 2010;Polaski 2006) and, in some cases, lead to a 'hybrid system of regulation' (Amengual 2010), or 'synergistic governance' (Mayer 2014). Private and public governance can have comparative strengths and weaknesses that make them complementary (Rodríguez-Garavito 2005).…”

“…Private auditing, for example, did not replace but rather complemented state regulations in the Dominican Republic's export processing zones by freeing up scarce government resources for monitoring and directing them to 'less visible' firms in the informal sector (Amengual 2010). Furthermore, scholars are recently beginning to identify sets of conditions in GVCs and industrial clusters under which economic and social upgrading in global supply chains can come together and be mutually reinforcing (Barrientos et al 2011;Mayer and Gereffi 2010;Puppim de Oliveira 2008b).…”

Evolución de la reglamentación laboral y de las condiciones de trabajo en China. Visión retrospectiva y retos

“…2) también señalan las diferencias dependientes de la trayectoria histórica y la consabida importancia de las formas nacionales y regionales de reglamentación laboral. Más recientemente ha surgido una línea de investigación que apunta a un «renacimiento normativo» y pone de relieve la posible función que puede desempeñar el Estado en la formulación y aplicación de normas laborales y derechos laborales (Amengual, 2010;Coslovsky, 2014;Piore y Schrank, 2008;Pires, 2008;Sabel y Zeitlin, 2012). A partir de datos empíricos sobre el Brasil, Pires (2008) y Coslovsky (2014) documentan el modo en que las inspecciones públicas del trabajo han ayudado a las empresas privadas a aplicar las leyes laborales nacionales, colmando así, aunque no fuera esta la intención, algunas lagunas que habían dejado las auditorías e inspecciones de carácter privado para evaluar el cumplimiento de las normas laborales y códigos de conducta empresariales.…”

Enforcement and the Effective Regulation of Labor

“…In particular, a large number of countries, both common and civil law, have quite stringent de jure regulations and very low levels of enforcement. The majority of these countries are located in Sub-Saharan African (such as 1 Studies that analyze the consequences of enforcement include Almeida and Carneiro (2012), Bhorat et al (2012), Pires (2008), and Ronconi (2010); and studies that analyze its determinants include Amengual (2010), Piore and Schrank (2008), Murillo et al (2009), andRonconi (2012). Angola, Benin, Burundi, Congo, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania), but there are also many examples in Latin America (e.g., Bolivia, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela) and Asia as well (e.g., Iraq, Sri Lanka, Syria).…”