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ABSTRACT
Based on a sample of 47 developing economies considered over the period 1992–2012, we find that a free media reduces the legal protection of labour, taken as a whole. However, the impact differs over various aspects of labour regulation: while media freedom correlates with less stringent regulation of work time, less constraints to dismissal, and lower protection of employee representation rights, it also correlates with greater legal parity of part-time and fixed-term labour with full-time and permanent workers.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Jenifer Whitten-Woodring for sharing her research and data, participants in the economics seminar series at Siena College for valuable feedback, and two anonymous referees for valuable comments. All errors are, of course, our own.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Notes
1 See Beattie et al. (Citation2017) and references therein on advertiser bias in media content.
2 All of our results hold when we replace the aggregate KOF index with subcomponents measuring economic, political and social aspects of globalization.