This paper explores microdata from Argentine household surveys to analyze how changes in the enforcement of labor regulations affect the compliance level and other labor outcomes among men and women. Using information of the highly decentralized labor inspection system in Argentina, I construct an enforcement measure with variation at the province, sector, and time level (share of inspected firms) which I instrument using a measure of the arrival cost of labor inspectors to the firms. The main findings reveal that when enforcement increases, the compliance with mandated benefits and formal wages increase among men, while informal wages decline. Among women, the compliance level declines jointly with informal wages. These heterogenous impacts are explained by labor regulations that make formal and informal men more substitutable in the production process than formal and informal women.

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强制执行劳动力市场法规：异质合规和跨性别调整

本文探索了来自阿根廷家庭调查的微观数据，以分析劳动法规实施方面的变化如何影响男女的依从性水平和其他劳动成果。利用阿根廷高度分散的劳动监察系统的信息，我构建了一个执行措施，该措施在省，部门和时间级别（被检查企业的份额）上有所不同，我使用劳动监察员到达企业的成本来进行测量。 。主要发现表明，随着执法力度的增加，男性对法定福利和正式工资的遵守率增加，而非正式工资则下降。在妇女中，合规水平与非正式工资一起下降。