For decades now, scholars have questioned the influence that international trade has had on labour regimes across the globe. This article seeks to contribute to this body of literature by assessing the relationship between trade openness and labour flexibility across countries while controlling for institutional complementarities and industrial relations values included in the varieties of capitalism (VoC) literature. In parallel, the article’s empirical core assesses the relationship between labour flexibility and trade openness within OECD and Latin American countries. As the empirical sections will highlight, the paper’s examination of the cited bivariate relationship points to a policy convergence toward labour flexibility among OECD countries that were originally considered by the VoC framework. Conversely, in Latin America, the cited relationship exhibits diverging trajectories in policy outcomes, suggesting an influential impact of the ‘pink tide’ that swept across the region at the turn of the century.

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进来吧，我们是开放的（和灵活的）：贸易开放、劳动力灵活性和资本主义的多样性

几十年来，学者们一直质疑国际贸易对全球劳工制度的影响。本文旨在通过评估各国贸易开放度和劳动力灵活性之间的关系，同时控制包括在各种资本主义 (VoC) 文献中的制度互补性和劳资关系价值，从而为这一文献体系做出贡献。同时，本文的实证核心评估了经合组织和拉美国家内部劳动力灵活性与贸易开放度之间的关系。正如实证部分将强调的那样，本文对所引用的双变量关系的检验表明，经合组织国家之间在政策上趋同于劳动力灵活性，而这些政策最初是由 VoC 框架考虑的。相反，在拉丁美洲，